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Not only that, I see,
but a man of many skills.
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Nah, this just keeps
breath and bone together.
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I come from a family of wheelwrights.
:48:09
Your business prospers?
:48:12
Ice storm killed most
of the cattle last year.
:48:15
Destroyed most of the wheat.
:48:17
Drought finished off the rest.
:48:18
Farmers who bought goods on credit,
:48:20
they had nothing left to sell or barter.
:48:22
Nature can be a stern taskmaster.
:48:26
The whole idea of a general
store's becoming obsolete.
:48:29
Man can find everything he needs nowadays
:48:31
in montgomery ward or sears
and roebuck catalogues.
:48:35
Everything but purpose, mr. Wheeler.
:48:42
I guess.
:48:47
Well, can I offer you a
brandy and cigar, captain,
:48:50
or do you abstain from ardent spirits?
:48:52
I should, but I do not.
:48:54
Thank you, mr. Wheeler.
:48:57
I had occasion to observe
your classroom today, mrs. Wheeler.
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Your way with children is commendable.
:49:03
Well, thank you.
:49:05
The parents bring so many of
their old ways and prejudices.
:49:08
If you don't help the children early on,
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they'll never adjust to their new lives.
:49:12
My view precisely.
:49:15
Thank you.
:49:16
You mentioned a proposition.
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Yes.
:49:25
Indeed.
:49:27
It is a great mistake
:49:29
to think that the indian is
born an inevitable savage.
:49:33
He is born a blank like the rest of us.
:49:36
Left in the surroundings of savagery,
:49:38
one naturally becomes a savage.
:49:40
But transfer the savage-born infant
:49:42
to the surroundings of civilization,
:49:43
and he will grow to possess a
civilized language and habit.
:49:48
President hayes and the congress
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have granted me the use of barracks in
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carlisle, pennsylvania,
for a model indian school
:49:55
and authorized me to recruit 125 children
:49:58
from here and the territories
for its inaugural class.