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Chapter 4 FRANK MAKES A PROPOSITION

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yes and tried to think what it was that occupied his mind the night before. It came t

his mother in the kitchen, busi

father?"

is mother answered. "You can have your breakfas

" returned Frank. "I want to s

it usually hung, Frank went out to the barn. He

Frost, looking up. "Tell your

came out because I want to speak to

ll, Fran

or think that I am foolish in speaking

at Frank in some

r neighbor Holman, you have formed a

remember saying last night, that if I were old enough to take c

es

am old enough?" a

een, Frank," returned h

strong enough to do

do the hardest of the work. But somebody is needed who understands farm

asily. Besides, there's Mr. Maynard, who is a good farmer, could advise me w

mise to give it careful consideration. But have you thou

, fa

ut you back; your class-mate

hall be very sorry for it. But I think t

u, Frank," said his fa

art, and I should feel glad to think I had an opportun

the way my grandfather felt and acted, and it's the way I like to see

arted from you, fa

united family, and, please God, we always shall be. But this plan of yours requires considera

u would laugh at

t, and does you credit. I shall feel that, wh

ant breakfast. Mr. Frost had finished milking, and with

," he said, looking behind him,

ater they were

ary," said Mr. Frost, as he

she, looking

arge of the farm for me, in case

d Mrs. Frost, wit

well-I may say intimately acqua

't Mr.

one that lives

e? He is our ne

ou can'

quite my

d say that it is

husband to her son, whose flushed face indicated how

ave hi

nest, Frank?" said M

fat

. He certainly

s Frank know

at he didn't know much at present, but thought th

nk you can trust Frank, I will do all I can to help him. I can't bear to think of having you go, yet

ce which I have no right to delegate to another, as long as I am able to

rank and his parents felt that it was a ser

in lesson, read over thoughtfully the following passage in his pr

ble to do so. A boy cannot wholly supply the place of a man, but he can do so in part. And where he is not called on to do this, he can so conduct himself that his friends who are absent may feel at ease about him. He ought to

write the words. The thing is to stand by them. If father should decide to go, I will do my best, and then, w

e kept his clothes, and, spreading open his Latin lexicon, proce

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