“A farmer ought to be more than his farm.”
“I don’t think I quite understand you.”
“It pays to put money into a farm. It ought to pay better to put money into a farmer.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know that I can explain, though I see what I mean,” said Dan thoughtfully. “I have an idea that an education helps to set a man’s brains in working order.”
“It ought to,” assented Mr. Borden.
“That is what I want.”
“So you are going to the normal school to work, are you?”
“Yes, sir.”