The older he grew the more he wanted it.

And Jacqueline said that the mind finds a way, and that the boy got books together, and he studied hard.

You see, Jacqueline knows, for when she was a little girl, she used to stay sometimes with Cousin Jane Selden on the Three-Notched Road.

And Cousin Jane Selden's farm was next to where the boy lived.

There was just a little stream between them.