He walked all the way without spending a cent.
At home he spent a moment in the kitchen pantry while the cook was in the cellar; then he went out to the stable and began some really pathetic experiments.

His materials were the small tin funnel which he had obtained in the pantry, and a short section of old garden hose.

He inserted the funnel into one end of the garden hose, and made it fast by wrappings of cord.

Then he arranged the hose in a double, circular coil, tied it so that it would remain coiled, and blew into the other end.
He blew and blew and blew; he set his lips tight together, as he had observed the little musician with the big horn set his, and blew and sputtered, and sputtered and blew, but nothing of the slightest importance happened in the orifice of the funnel.

Still he blew.