"That is very doubtful," said Jonas. "Why is it doubtful?" asked Oliver. "Because," said Jonas, "you would be very busy, and couldn't attend to it. It would be a great deal more trouble to make your boys do any thing, than it would be to hire another man to do it; and so you would hire a man, to save your trouble." "Yes; but then, Jonas, farmers are very busy, and yet they make their boys work." "True," replied Jonas; "but farmers are busy about such kind of work as that their boys can help them do it,--so they can keep them at work without any special trouble. But men of property are employed in such kind of business as boys cannot do; and so they must work, if they work at all, at something else; and that makes a good deal of trouble." "Then I'd send my boys to some farmer, and let him make them work," said Oliver. "Yes," said Jonas, "that would do pretty well." So saying, Jonas stopped the horse a moment, and stepped out of the sleigh. He was at the foot of a long, steep hill in the woods. He was going to walk up. Oliver remained in the sleigh, and rode. When they reached the top, Jonas got in again, and they rode on. "But then, Jonas," said Oliver, "there is one thing to be thought of, and that is, that rich men's sons will not have to work when they grow up; and so they don't need so much to grow industrious." "O, yes, they will," said Jonas. "Why, Josey told me that he didn't expect to work when he should be a man." "No, he doesn't _expect_ to work, but he'll find that it is different from what he had expected, when he grows up." "How?" said Oliver. "Why, a great many rich men's boys find, when they get to be twenty-one, that they have to go out into the world, and earn their own living, without any money." "Why?" said Oliver; "won't their fathers give them any money?" "Their fathers cannot generally give them enough to support them," said Jonas, "even if they are disposed to do it; because, you see, they have their own families still to support. Besides, if they were to divide