The other was apprenticed as a lad to a builder and carpenter of the market town, and learned the trade exactly as the rest of the men did there.

He lodged in the town in the cheapest of houses, ate hard bread and cheese with the carpenters and masons and bricklayers, and was glad when the pittance he received was raised a shilling a week.

Once now and then he walked over to the farm on Sundays or holidays--he was not allowed to come too often.

They did not even send him in a basket of apples from the great orchard; all the apples were carefully gathered and sold.
These two sons were now grown men, strong and robust, and better educated than would have been imagined--thanks to their own industry and good sense, and not to any schooling they received.

Two finer specimens of physical manhood it would have been difficult to find, yet their wages were no more than those of ordinary labourers and workmen.