Wall, if that don’t beat the cat’s a fightin’. I knew that boy had the stuff in him when he planned that house for you and Mary. JENNIE If you folks are going, you had better be coming along. MR. BENSON _Looking at watch._ By jinks, it is time we were going. ETHEL I’ll be there as soon as I find my fan. _Exeunt all but Ethel. Enters Clarence unobserved. Ethel looks through box and around for fan._ Well, I’m sure I brought that fan along, I couldn’t think of losing it, for it’s one Clarence gave me before he went away to school and before we moved to the city. Well, that’s funny—I know I couldn’t have lost it on the way, and we— CLARENCE You don’t need a fan in this cool place. ETHEL Clarence! You here? _Rises and takes him by the hand._ CLARENCE Yes, I graduated last week—came home to settle down and do something. One feels mighty ambitious after going through college and wants to get right out and begin applying his knowledge and getting the practical experience. But you? I thought you were in the city. Out for a visit, I suppose? ETHEL Visit! Why, the folks have moved back on the farm. Being the baby, I naturally had to come too. Of course, I hated to leave. CLARENCE I’m mighty glad to know your folks have moved back on the farm. Now that it won’t be necessary for you to look after them so closely, I suppose you will soon be moving back and start your practical applications, there. ETHEL Oh, maybe—things are mighty handy, you know. CLARENCE Lots of fine fellows there, too, I suppose? ETHEL Lots of them. The girls are scarce, too. Tell me about your college days. Suppose you graduated with high honors? CLARENCE Oh, no, no! Not many anyway. There was a lot— _Enters Hiram, stops and listens._ of things I wanted to get at the bottom of; so many things I was in doubt about. I was too busy to think of honors. I went in to prepare myself for higher honors to be won later in life and that shall be remembered and enjoyed by those that follow after me when I’m gone. HIRAM That’s right, my boy. It ain’t so much what you do in school as it is what ye get, and you do after ye get out. That’s the time to do something. Look at Lincoln—he hardly seen the inside of a schoolhouse, but he studied and got something then went and done somethin’. He came from the farm, too. Pardon me, children, I left my pipe layin’ there by this tree when I set down ter dinner. (_Takes pipe and lights, taking long, loud draws._) I’ll be leavin’, I know young folks like to be alone. _Exit._