“No fear. But I’ve had to come back. I’m resting. This old arm, you know, and all that sort of thing. Just for a time.... And besides I want to see a lot of you.”
“Yes.”
“You have to grow up here and learn all you can, science and all sorts of things, so that you can be a useful man—wherever you have to go.”
“Africa,” said Peter.
“Africa, perhaps. And that’s why one has to go to school and college—and learn all about it.”
“They haven’t taught me much about it yet,” said Peter.
“Well, you haven’t been to much in the way of schools,” said Oswald.
“Are there better schools?”
“No end. We’re going to find one,” said Oswald.
“I wish school was over,” said Peter.