we get something to do." "There's a carpenter's-shop a little way down the street," said Henry. "I guess you can find employment there." "I'll go round there after supper." Meanwhile he attended to his duty as cook, and in due time each of the boys was supplied with four fried eggs and as much bread as he cared for. Probably butter was dispensed with, as too costly a luxury, until more prosperous times. When supper was over the boys took a walk, and then, returning to their humble room, spent the evening in preparing their next morning's lessons. In them James soon took leading rank, for his brain was larger, and his powers of application and intuition great, as Dr. Robinson had implied. From the time he entered Geauga Seminary probably he never seriously doubted that he had entered upon the right path. CHAPTER IX. WAYS AND MEANS. James called on the carpenter after supper and inquired if he could supply him with work. "I may be able to if you are competent," was the reply. "Have you ever worked at the business?" "Yes." "Where?" "At Orange, where my home is." "How long did you work at it?" "Perhaps I had better tell you what I have done," said James. He then gave an account of the barns he had been employed upon, and the frame house which he had assisted to build for his mother. "I don't set up for a first-class workman," he added, with a smile, "but I think I can be of some use to you."