"The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: Do I look like a schoolmaster to you? No, but you talk like one. You know something of schoolmasters, do you?Yes, sir, the boy says, faltering a bit as he sees the jaws of the trap swinging toward his leg. Yet here it is the middle of Monday— The place was empty 'cause of the Hanging. I didn't want to stay and— And what? Get more ahead of the others than I was already. If you are ahead, the correct thing is to get used to it— not to make yourself into an imbecile. Come, you belong in school."
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