Part 2, Chapter 19 Summary

The reservation school tries to make a farmer out of Tom, teaching him how to plow fields. Tom, however, thinks it is stupid to rip up the grass to grow something else. Tom did not like the idea of making the earth into something it did not want to be. After two weeks of doing a terrible job plowing the fields, they put another boy to the task of re-plowing the fields and they place Tom in the cow barn, learning to milk cows.

Tom hates working in the cow barn, but he learns the tasks and soon becomes a herd boy. After milking, he takes the cows to a pasture two miles from the barns for the day and then back again for the evening milking. Tom loves the open air, sky and sunshine and he does not mind being...