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 I felt my face burn. "But I didn't know anything about it," I said.

"No, but you said that you knew all about it,—and then made the statement."

"I wasn't fair," I admitted. "I hadn't any right to say it; for I didn't know."

"Neither does any one else who makes the same statement," said Uncle Rob. "Now I want to ask you some questions about these earth-works."

"Don't know any more about those than I did about Christian Science."

Uncle Rob laughed. "Haven't you ever paced these squares off and studied the proportions of them and wondered what sort of instruments were used?"

"No," I said, "I haven't."

"And you are planning to be a civil engineer, and have taken no concern in this work, done with such accuracy, hundreds and hundreds of years ago?"

I looked around at the upper square, with a new interest. "Well," I said, "I'm so used to seeing them, you know, that I've never thought much about them,—never thought of them in that way,'t all."