Andy found the school considerably more agreeable after his departure.
We will now suppose twelve months to have passed.

During this time Andy has grown considerably, and is now quite a stout boy.

He has improved also in education.

The Misses Grant, taking a kind interest in his progress, managed to spare him half the day in succeeding terms, so that he continued to attend school.

Knowing that he had but three hours to learn, when the others had six, he was all the more diligent, and was quite up to the average standard for boys of his age.