Now school was over for another summer and Trimble Cushman's dray could be driven at a good wage--by a boy overnight become a man.

There were still carpers who would regard him as a menace to life and limb.

Judge Penniman was among these.

A large truck in sole charge of a boy--still in his teens, as the judge put it--was not conducive to public tranquillity.

But this element was speedily silenced.