Says, if I'm willin', I can take as much as I can manage, and let it out myself for bindin' and closin', and he'll pay me considerable more on a lot than Robinson has, cash down.

Now you see, J'rome, I'm gettin' older, and I can't do much more finishin' than I've been doin' right along.

What I'm comin' at is this: s'pose I set another bench in here, and take the extra work, and you quit school and go into business.

I can learn you all I know fast enough.

You can nigh about make a shoe now--dun'no' but you can quite." "I'd have to leave school," Jerome said, soberly.
"How much more book-learnin' do you think you need ?" returned Ozias, with his hard laugh.