But they did not explore it, for the mother was afraid, and the two came down the hill, the child's head full of visions of a pirate's treasure, and the mother's full of the whims of the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
The next day school began in Sycamore Ridge,--for the school and the church came with the newspaper, _Freedom's Banner_,--and a new world opened to the boy, and he forgot the cave, and became interested in Webster's blue-backed speller.

And thus another grown-up person, "Miss Lucy," came into his world.

For with children, men and women generically are of another order of beings.

But Miss Lucy, being John Barclay's teacher, grew into his daily life on an equality with his dog and the Hendricks boys, and took a place somewhat lower than his mother in his list of saints.

For Miss Lucy came from Sangamon County, Illinois, and her father had fought the Indians, and she told the school as many strange and wonderful things about Illinois as John had learned from his mother about Haverhill.