He had read of them in the weekly paper, which was now a part of progress, and he had learned something of them at the district school--for the district school had come, of course.

It springs up in the United States after forests have been cut away, just as springs the wheat or corn.

And the district school was, to the youth, a novelty and a vast attraction.

It took him into Society.
Through forest paths and from long distances in each direction came the pupils to this first school of the region, and there were perhaps a score of them in all, boys and girls, and the teacher was a fair young woman from the distant town.

The school-house was a structure of a single room, built in the wood, and squirrels dropped nuts upon its roof from overhanging boughs and peeped in at the windows, and sometimes a hawk would chase a fleeing bird into the place, where it would find a sure asylum, but create confusion.