"Did he find it hard to rise ?" "He is a hard worker.

I have heard him say that he used to sit up late of nights during his apprenticeship, studying and improving himself." "That is what I mean to do," said Harry.
"I don't think he was as lazy as his nephew," said Oscar.

"I am afraid if I had been in his place I should have remained in it." "Are you lazy ?" asked Harry, smiling at the other's frankness.
"A little so; that is, I don't improve my opportunities as I might.
Father wants to make a lawyer of me so he has put me here, and I am preparing for Harvard." "I envy you," said Harry.

"There is nothing I should like so much as entering college." "I daresay I shall like it tolerably well," said Oscar; "but I don't _hanker_ after it, as the boy said after swallowing a dose of castor oil.

I'll tell you what I should like better--" "What ?" asked Harry, as the other paused.
"I should like to enter the Naval Academy, and qualify myself for the naval service.