10/11 -- That's what he wants to do." "And you want it too, I suppose ?" "Yes -- I'll do the best I can by my children. I can't do as I would by them all," said the father, with a mixture of pride expressed and pride not expressed, -- "but I'll try to make a man of Will!" "And t'other'll make a man of himself," said Mr.Underhill, as he saw Winthrop quit the stoop. "_He'll_ never run a plough up the side of a house. But what kind of a man are you going to make of Will? "That must be as Providence directs." "Hum -- I should say that Providence directs you to keep 'em both to hum," said Mr.Underhill; -- "but that's not my affair. |