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Tracy Cartwright had been teaching young children long enough to know that kids in the age group of her current students tend to lose concentration quickly. She subscribed to the modern theory that education had to be entertaining and perhaps the most difficult part of her job was keeping her students focused on what she was hoping to teach them long enough for them to grasp at least some small amount of knowledge of the subject.
Notwithstanding the associated difficulties, Tracy loved her job, always had, and could never see herself doing anything else. She was confident that in the time she had been at Haasts Bluff she had imparted an acceptable amount of learning upon her small class. And education she believed, was not just about mathematics, or spelling, or geography. Some of it,
