` Oh , yes , ' said the clerk , ` he can say `` Moo '' now . ' ` Do you think he will get on with his learning ? ' asked the peasant . ` Oh , yes , ' said the clerk , ` but I shall want another hundred dollars for books . Peter ca n't learn well out of the ones that he has got . ' ` Well , well , ' said the man , ` what must be spent shall be spent . ' So he gave the clerk the third hundred dollars for books , and a cask of good old ale for Peter . The clerk drank the ale himself , and gave the calf milk , which he thought would be better for it . Some weeks passed , during which the peasant did not come round to ask after the calf , being frightened lest it should cost him another hundred dollars , for he had begun to squirm a bit at having to part with so much money . Meanwhile the clerk decided that the calf was as fat as it could be , so he killed it . After he had got all the beef out of the way he went inside , put on his black clothes , and made his way to the peasant 's house . As soon as he had said ` Good-day ' he asked , ` Has Peter come home here ? ' ` No , indeed , he has n't , ' said the man ; ` surely he has n't run away ? ' ' I hope , ' said the clerk , ` that he would not behave so contemptibly after all the trouble I have had to teach him , and all that I have spent upon him . I have had to spend at least a hundred dollars of my own money to buy books for him before I got him so far on . He could say anything he liked now , so he said to-day that he longed to see his parents again . I was willing to give him that pleasure , but I was afraid that he would n't be able to find the way here by himself , so I made myself ready to go with him . When we had got outside the house I remembered that I had left my stick inside , and went in again to get it . When I came out again Peter had gone off on his own account . I thought he would be here , and if he is n't I do n't know where he is . '
The peasant and his wife began XXXXX lament bitterly that Peter had run away in this fashion just when they were to have so much joy of him , and after they had spent so much on his education .
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