CHAPTER V. THE TWINS THRILL DAWSON’S LANDING
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
Remark of Dr. Baldwin’s, concerning upstarts: We don’t care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
Mrs. York Driscoll enjoyed two years of bliss with that prize, Tom—bliss that was troubled a little at times, it is true, but bliss nevertheless; then she died, and her husband and his childless sister, Mrs. Pratt, continued the bliss-business at the old stand. Tom was petted and indulged and spoiled to his entire content—or nearly that. This went on till he was nineteen, then he was sent to Yale. He went handsomely equipped with “conditions,” but
