I told him
that perhaps I would when I had seen as much of men and things as he
had; but now I looked about me with the mind and the eye of a yokel.
That was just what I wanted to escape. He was himself talking to me
from a vantage-point of superior knowledge, and the consciousness of my
own inferiority was one of the main things to spur me on."
"At that he gave you up?" said I.
"He gave me up," Tim answered; "and after all, Mark, old Weston is a
fine fellow. He said that there was just one thing for me to do, and
that was to see and learn for myself. So he wrote to his partner
to-day, and I go in the morning."
"But must you go on a day's notice?"
"The quicker the better, Mark; and you see I haven't been letting any
grass grow under my feet. When Weston and I reached our conclusion, I
went to the store and got the trunk. In the interval of packing, I've
gone over to Pulsifer's and arranged for Tip to work regularly for you
this winter, looking after the farm. He wanted to go up to Snyder
County and dig for gold.
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