Have you got any more questions ?" "Just a few." So the boy continued to ask questions, and the captain was more than once obliged to confess that he could not answer.

He began to form a new opinion of his young cousin, who, though he filled the humble position of a canal-boy, appeared to be well equipped with knowledge.
"I guess that'll do, Jim," he said after a while.

"You've got ahead of me, though I didn't expect it.

A boy with such a head as you've got ought not to be on the tow-path." "What ought I to be doing, cousin ?" "You ought to keep school.

You're better qualified than I am to-day, and yet I taught for three winters in Indiana." James was pleased with this tribute to his acquirements, especially from a former schoolmaster.
"I never thought of that," he said.