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"Well," said Uncle Robert one morning some time after this, "if anybody twenty years ago had prophesied that I should become a schoolmaster in my declining years, I should have laughed at him. But come, there is no help for it, and by good luck I've got two of the dearest and best little pupils that ever any teacher could desire."
Perhaps, though, no boy or girl either was ever taught on so delightful a system before. For, every morning after breakfast -- well rolled in fear-nothing plaids if it happened to be raining -- Uncle Robert, with Tom and 'Theena, took their way towards the pine-wood and the hermitage. If Dick and Jack happened to be about when they started, they were sure to give them a hail.