Not that she was as wise as he in many things; certainly not.

She did not know how the new woodchuck hole was progressing, nor where the coon tracks were thickest along the creek, nor where the woodpecker was nesting; but she was excessively learned, nevertheless, and could be relied upon in an emergency.

He approved of her, decidedly.

Besides, he remembered her course on one occasion when he was in a great strait.

He was but three years old then, but he remembered all about it.