All was for them.

The crops were grown and the sheep sheared, that Rufus and Winthrop might, not eat and be clothed, -- that was a trifle, -- but have the full good of a College education.

The burden and the joy of the toilers was the same.

There were delightful speculations round the fireside about the professions the young men would choose; what profound lawyers, what brilliant ministers, should come forth from the learned groves of Shagarack; perhaps, the father hinted, -- statesmen.

There were letters from both the boys, to be read and re-read, and loved and prided in, as once those of Rufus.