"I told him that I didn't care to criticise his father."
"Good! I see you are discreet. What is Ezra going to do with his son? Will he train him up to business?"
"Loammi says he is going to Columbia College, or perhaps to Yale."
"He will never get there. He won't study hard enough."
"So I think, Cousin Seth. I wish I had the chance."
"Would you really like to go to college, Scott?" asked Seth Lawton, thoughtfully.
"No, I think not as I am at present situated. I could not enter before I am eighteen, and by that time I shall be well advanced in the knowledge of business."
"I think you are right, but I advise you to study, and read instructive books in your leisure hours."
"I am doing that, Cousin Seth, and I am thinking soon of taking a commercial course in some business college."
"Do so, and I will pay the bill for tuition."