By-and-by, my brother Jim came to Neosho to go to school. He stayed with another family. However, we would enjoy each other's company in our spare time. We had a lot of fun together. We would give comic recitations, play mumblety-peg with the pocketknife, and shot marbles. I was so good at marbles that other kids stopped playing keeps with me. Jim could throw rocks like a rifle. However, it really bothered me when he would kill a bird that way. One day I received a shock when Jim decided to quit school and take a fulltime job plastering walls. "Besides," he said, "I wasn't learning anything new. Are you?"