5/23 I was a lumberman, as you know, before I entered the regular army, and when the fighting's done I think I'll go back to it. I can swing an axe with the best of 'em, but I mean after a while to have others swinging axes for me. If I can I'm going to become a big lumberman. I'd rather be that than anything else." "It's a just and fine ambition, sergeant, I feel sure that you're going to become a man of money and power. Mr.Warner means to become president of Harvard, twenty or twenty-five years from now, and my cousin Harry Kenton, a reconstructed rebel, is going to deliver an address there to the new president's young men, while Mr.Pennington and I, as the president's guests, are going to sit on the stage and smile. |