CHAPTER V 



THE SCHOOL, WELL-DIGGING, AND A PICNIC 



One Sunday during hay-time, Bert and Fred 

 came in, and the latter and Bob were subjected 

 to some good-humoured chaff about a new school 

 they were trying to set going. 



It seemed that Fred, who, it will be remem- 

 bered, had lost his brave and noble-minded wife, 

 was with one or two others impressed with the 

 fact that a school was much needed in his dis- 

 trict, which also contained Bob's homestead. So. 

 forming themselves into school trustees, under 

 the Government Act, with Fred as chairman, 

 they had prevailed on the idealistic Bob to act 

 as secretary-treasurer. 



To this office there was attached an annual 

 salary of fifty dollars, but he had already put 

 in some hundreds of dollars' worth of time, and, 

 in fact, all concerned had thus far worked hard 

 without much definite result beyond the holding 

 of many meetings and recording of many minutes. 



How had this come about ? Well, a site 



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