Capitolo 22
anymore the questions?"
"Only some."
Then the boy kept on asking questions, and the captain was more than
once he/she forced to confess that he could not respond. He started to form a
new opinion of his/her young cousin that, although he filled the humble one
position of a channel-boy, seemed to be gifted well of knowledge.
"I guess that it will do, Jim", he said after some. "You have before of
me, although I didn't wait me for him. A boy with such head as You has
doesn't have to be on the tow-crossed."
"What should I be doing cousin?"
"You should hold school. You are better qualified that I am to-day, and
I still taught for three winters in Indiana."
James was pleased with this tribute to his/her acquisitions, especially from
a first teacher.
"I never thought about that", he said. "I am too much youth to hold school. I am
only fifteen."
"That is rather young. You know enough; but me the sure aint that you were able
you grab some of the great boys that would be coming to school. You know
enough, but you have more need muscle. I will tell him what I put to the current one. Is with
me this summer--it won't make her some evil, and you will earn
anything--then goes to school a term or two, and from that duration that you will be
qualified to teach a school of district."
"I will think about what you say, cousin", said James, thoughtfully. "ME
doesn't know but Your suggestion is good."
It is not to always say effortless that circumstances have more influence in
moulding the destiny of a boy, but it seems probable that the
conversation that has been detailed as soon as, and the discovery that he was
entirely you equalize in the knowledge to a man that had been a teacher, you/he/she can have
puts the new ideas in the head of the boy, it destined to be born you bear fruit later.
For the present, however its duties as a channel-boy must be frequent to,
and they would be taken back soon.
Approximately ten that night, when James was of the service the boat,
it drew near to the city of Akron, where ventuns there were locks to be