Shep was rubbing his neck fondly on the schoolmaster's boot.
"That dog couldn't think more o' me if I were a bone," he said as he went away.
END OF BOOK ONE
BOOK TWO
Which is the Story of the Principal Witness
CHAPTER IX
IN WHICH I MEET OTHER GREAT MEN
It was a sunny day in late September on which Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody took me and my little pine chest with all my treasures in it to the village where I was to go to school and live with the family of Mr. Michael Hacket, the schoolmaster. I was proud of the chest, now equipped with iron hinges and a hasp and staple. Aunt Deel had worked hard to get me ready, sitting late at her loom to weave cloth for my new suit, which a traveling tailor had fitted and made for me. I remember that the breeches were of tow and that they scratched my legs and made me very uncomfortable, but I did not complain. My uncle used to say that nobody with tow breeches on him could ride a horse without being thrown—they pricked so.