I used to argue the matter at first , but I 'm wiser now . Facts are stubborn things , but as some one has wisely said , not half so stubborn as fallacies . So I only smile loftily now in eloquent silence . Why , I have nine grades in my school and I have to teach a little of everything , from investigating the interiors of earthworms to the study of the solar system . My youngest pupil is four -- his mother sends him to school to ` get him out of the way ' -- and my oldest twenty -- it ` suddenly struck him ' that it would be easier to go to school and get an education than follow the plough any longer . In the wild effort to cram all sorts of research into six hours a day I do n't wonder if the children feel like the little boy who was taken to see the biograph . ' I have to look for what 's coming next before I know what went last , ' he complained . I feel like that myself . `` And the letters I get , Anne ! Tommy 's mother writes me that Tommy is not coming on in arithmetic as fast as she would like . He is only in simple reduction yet , and Johnny Johnson is in fractions , and Johnny is n't half as smart as her Tommy , and she ca n't understand it . And Susy 's father wants to know why Susy ca n't write a letter without misspelling half the words , and Dick 's aunt wants me to change his seat , because that bad Brown boy he is sitting with is teaching him to say naughty words . `` As to the financial part -- but I 'll not begin on that . Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make country schoolmarms ! `` There , I feel better , after that growl . After all , I 've enjoyed these past two years . But I 'm coming to Redmond . `` And now , Anne , I 've a little plan . You know how I loathe boarding . I 've boarded for four years and I 'm so tired of it .
I do n't feel XXXXX enduring three years more of it .
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