The old Squire was so indignant at the treatment the boy had received that he set off early the next morning to interview the selectmen.

As a result, they took little Ike from the Doles and put him into another family, the Winslows, who were very kind to him.

Mrs.
Winslow, indeed, gave him a mother's care and affection.
The boy soon began to grow properly.

Within a year you would hardly have recognized him as the pinched and skinny little fellow that once had lived at the Dole farm.

He grew in mind as well as body, and before long showed so much promise that the Winslows sent him first to the village academy, and afterward to Westbrook Seminary, near Portland.