In another year when his boy had passed his entrance examinations he would be able to send him to the high school in the neighbouring town of Easton, properly equipped and relieved of those handicaps with which poverty can so easily wash all the colour out of young life.

A brilliant picture the father drew before the eyes of his wife of the educational career of their boy, who had already given promise of exceptional ability.

But while she listened, charmed, delighted and filled with proud anticipation, the mother with none the less painful care saved her garden and poultry money, cut to bare necessity her household expenses, skimped herself and her children in the matter of dress, and by every device which she had learned in the bitter school of experience during the ten years of her Canadian life, made such preparation for the expenses of her boy's education as would render it unnecessary to call upon the wealth realised from the National Machine Company's business.
In the matter of providing for the expense of his education Larry himself began to take a not unimportant part.

During the past two years he had gained not only in size but in the vigour of his health, and in almost every kind of work on the farm he could now take a man's place.
His mother would not permit him to give his time and strength to their own farming operations for the sufficient reason that from these there would be no return in ready money, and ready money was absolutely essential to the success of her plans.

The boy was quick, eager and well-mannered, and in consequence had no difficulty in finding employment with the neighbouring farmers.