But all he says about it is that 'Hard work never made any money yet.' He has worked exceedingly hard all his lifetime.

In his youth, though the family were then well-to-do, he was not permitted to lounge about in idleness, but had to work with the rest in the fields.

He dragged his heavy nailed shoes over the furrows with the plough; he reaped and loaded in harvest time; in winter he trimmed the hedgerows, split logs, and looked after the cattle.

He enjoyed no luxurious education--luxurious in the sense of scientifically arranged dormitories, ample meals, and vacations to be spent on horseback, or with the breechloader.

Trudging to and fro the neighbouring country town, in wind, and wet, and snow, to school, his letters were thrashed into him.