He is not worried that his father is ill, but hopes that the old man will soon be back at his work.

Of course, he hopes that his father will be at work, soon; for when the old man stops working the younger man will very likely have to go to work himself." "You don't mean, doctor, that that big, healthy-looking fellow is supported by his father ?" gasped Dick Prescott.
"That's just what I mean," nodded the man of medicine.
"Why, I didn't suppose that old Mr.Hinman earned much." "In the tin-peddler's business it's nearly all profit except the wear and tear on horse and wagon," smiled the physician.

"One who isn't fitted for that line of work would starve to death at it, but Reuben Hinman has always been a shrewd, keen dealer in his own line of work.

Strange as it may seem, Reuben is believed to make more than three hundred dollars a month.

He gives it all to that son and two daughters.