CHAPTER II.
WINN ASSUMES A RESPONSIBILITY.
It was during one of these conversations with the boy's mother that Major Caspar decided to take Winn with him on his raft voyage down the Mississippi.
"If I find a good chance to place the boy in a first-class school in one of the large cities after the voyage is ended I shall do so," said the Major.

"It is only fair, though, that he should have a chance to see and learn something of the world first.

After all, there is nothing equal to travel as an educator.

I honestly believe that the war did more in four years towards educating this nation by stirring its people up and moving large bodies of them to sections remote from their homes than all our colleges have in fifty." "But you mean that Winn shall go to college, of course ?" said Mrs.
Caspar, a little anxiously.
"If he wants to, and shows a real liking for study," was the reply; "but not unless he does.

College is by no means the only place where a boy can receive a liberal education.