What do you say , Professor ? '' `` I like it much , and will give the lads all the help I can . But they will need books to read up these new subjects , and we have not many , I fear , '' began Mr. Bhaer , looking much pleased , planning many fine lectures on geology , which he liked . `` We should have a library for the special purpose . '' `` Is that a useful sort of book , Dan ? '' asked Mr. Laurie , pointing to the volume that lay open by the cabinet . `` Oh , yes ! it tells all I want to know about insects . I had it here to see how to fix the butterflies right . I covered it , so it is not hurt ; '' and Dan caught it up , fearing the lender might think him careless . `` Give it here a minute ; '' and , pulling out his pencil , Mr. Laurie wrote Dan 's name in it , saying , as he set the book up on one of the corner shelves , where nothing stood but a stuffed bird without a tail , `` There , that is the beginning of the museum library . I 'll hunt up some more books , and Demi shall keep them in order . Where are those jolly little books we used to read , Jo ? ` Insect Architecture ' or some such name , all about ants having battles , and bees having queens , and crickets eating holes in our clothes and stealing milk , and larks of that sort . '' `` In the garret at home . I 'll have them sent out , and we will plunge into Natural History with a will , '' said Mrs. Jo , ready for any thing . `` Wo n't it be hard to write about such things ? '' asked Nat , who hated compositions . `` At first , perhaps ; but you will soon like it . If you think that hard , how would you like to have this subject given to you , as it was to a girl of thirteen : A conversation between Themistocles , Aristides , and Pericles on the proposed appropriation of funds of the confederacy of Delos for the ornamentation of Athens ? ''
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