ugh my schooling."

"You don't know enough to hurt you, do you, Luke?" inquired Frank Heath,
slyly.

"Nor I don't want to. I know enough to get along."

"I don't and never expect to," said Harry.

"Do you mean to go to school when you're a gray-headed old veteran?"
asked Frank, jocosely.

"I may not go to school then but I shan't give up learning then," said
Harry, smiling. "One can learn without going to school. But while I'm
young, I mean to go to school as much as I can."

"I guess you're right," said Frank; "I'd go myself, only I'm too lazy.
It's hard on a feller to worry his brain with study after he's been at
work all day. I don't believe I was cut out for a great scholar."

"I don't believe you were, Frank," said Joe Bates.

"You always used to stand pretty well down toward the foot of the class
when you went to school."

"A feller can't be smart as well as handsome. As long as I'm
good-looking, I won't complain because I wasn't born with the genius of
a Bates."

"Thank you for the compliment, Frank, though I suppose it means that I
am homely. I haven't got any genius or education to spare."

When Monday evening arrived ten pupils presented themselves, of whom
six were boys, or young men, and four were girls. Leonard Morgan felt
encouraged. A class of ten, though paying but five dollars each, would
give him fifty dollars, which would be quite an acceptable addition to
his scanty means.

"I am glad to see so many," he said. "I think our evening class will be
a success. I will take your names and ascertain what studies you wish to
pursue."

When he came to Harry; he asked, "What do you propose to study?"

"I should like to take up algebra and Latin, if you are willing,"
answered our hero.

"Have you studied either at all?"

"No, sir; I have not had an opportunity."

"How far have you been in arithmetic?"

"Through the square and cube root?"

"If you have been so far, you will have no difficulty with algebra. As
to Latin, one of the girls wishes to take up that and I will put you in
the class with her."

It will be seen that Harry was growing ambitious. He didn't expect to
go to college, though nothing would have pleased him better; but he
felt that some knowledge of a foreign language could do him no harm.
Franklin, whom he had taken as his great exemplar, didn't go to college;
yet he made himself one of the foremost scientific men of the age and
acquired enduring reputation, not only as