Show MOTHERS FOOL 44 PT is plain to me said the farmers wife these boys will mike make their marks in s life they nver never were nude made to handle a hoe and at dofice once ta college they ito to 4 1 go 99 yes I 1 john and henry it itis clear to me great anen in in this world are sure to be but tom hes little above a fool so joha and henry must go to school now reilly really wife farmer brown As he set his mug 0 of f cider down tom toga does more more work in a day for me than both of hl his brothers do in three book le arnin will never plant beans or I 1 corn nor hoe potatoes sure as youre born nor noi mend a rood of broken fence for my part give me commonsense common sense but his wife the roost was bound to I 1 rule and so the boys were sent to school While Tom of course was left behind for his bis mother slid said he had no mind min d five years at school the students spent then each one into business went jt john 0 hh learned to play the flute and fiddle ana and parted his heir hair of course in the middle addle tho j ahls brother looked rather higher than iha nhe be and hung out but his sh shingle ingle dan H browni brown MD meanwhile atheme at home their brother tom had taken a noti notion ali into his head bead thou gh h e said not a word but trim 1 gemi he managed a to read full many a book well belll the war broke out and captain tom to battle a hundred soldiers led and when then the rebel flag went down tame came marching march ingi home as general brown but he went to work on the farm apin again planted his corn and so bowed sowed wed his bis grain repaired the house and broken fence and ana people said he had common sense inow ow common sense was rather rare and the state house needed a portion there so our family dunce moved into town and people called him governor brow and his 1 brothers that went to the city school cami came home to live with mothers fool foo |