The Courage of the Commonplace

While ploughing his fields one day, John Cameron, a farmer, notices that his horse, Jerry, is evidently sick, so stops work and takes the team up to the barn. He looses Jerry and lets him go into a loose box, while the other horse, Jim, is put, as usual, into his stall. Cameron finds that the horse is in bad shape, and at once sets off to see a veterinary surgeon, who gives him medicine for the animal, but does not come to see what is the matter. That same morning, Julia, his daughter, receives a reply from the principal of the School of Arts and Sciences to a letter she has written him asking the cost of a course she wishes to take. She has long hoped to get something better than a college education, and has been saving all the money she could make on her chickens in order to be able to afford it