There were about twenty pupils from other towns who boarded with the Principal or elsewhere in the town, and made up the whole number of students in attendance--about eighty on an average.
Standing on the eminence referred to, Harry's attention was drawn to the Academy, and he could not help forming the wish that he, too, might share in its advantages.
"There is so much to learn, and I know so little," he thought.
But he did not brood over the poverty which prevented him from gratifying his desire.

He knew it would do no good, and he also reflected that knowledge may be acquired in a printing office as well as within the walls of an academy or college.
"As soon as I get well settled," he said to himself, "I mean to get some books and study a little every day.

That is the way Franklin did.

I never can be an editor, that's certain, without knowing more than I do now.

Before I am qualified to teach others, I must know something myself." Looking at the village which lay below him, Harry was disposed to congratulate himself on his new residence.
"It looks like a pleasant place," he said to himself, "and when I get a little acquainted, I shall enjoy myself very well, I am sure.