Hardy said. "Spanish to
begin with, then cooking. I shall teach you at any rate, to make
simple dishes and puddings, and to boil vegetables properly. I
shall myself practice until I am perfect, and then I shall teach
you. Besides that, it will be as well for you to learn to attend to
poultry; and that is all I know of at present, except that you must
both take pains to improve yourselves at sewing. We shall have to
make everything for ourselves out there."
"I suppose we shan't do any more regular lessons, mamma?"
"Indeed you will, Maud. You do not imagine that your education is
finished, do you? and you cannot wish to grow almost as ignorant as
the poor Indians of the country. You will give up the piano, and
learn Spanish instead of French, but that will be all the
difference; and I shall expect you both to make as much progress as
possible, because, although I shall take you both out there, and
shall teach you whenever I find time, your lessons must of
necessity be short and irregular. And now you can all go out into
the garden and talk the matter over."
"But you have not told us yet where we are going to, papa," Charley
said.
"We are going to farm upon the bunks of one of the great South
American rivers--probably the Parana, in the Argentine Republic.
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