“Did you ever know any one who thought that way? Tell me that?”
“Yes—one or two.”
“Where?”
“At college.”
“At college!” Wanza gave a quick twitter of mirth. “Well, if they was such fools as that, why did they waste their time trying to learn anything.”
I shook my head. “I cannot answer that, Wanza.”
“Why! Couldn’t they smell the flowers, and see the birds—and hear ’em, and look up at the stars at night?”
I shook my head again. “One would think so, child.”
“Perhaps they never looked down at the flowers, or up at the birds, or higher up at the stars.”
“Perhaps not.”