BEN GOES TO NEW YORK Pentonville was thirty-five miles distant from New York, and the fare was a dollar, but an excursion ticket, carrying a passenger both ways, was only a dollar and a half.

Ben calculated that his extra expenses, including dinner, might amount to fifty cents, thus making the cost of the trip two dollars.

This sum, small as it was, appeared large both to Ben and his mother.

Some doubts about the expediency of the journey suggested themselves to Mrs.Barclay.
"Do you think you had better go, Ben ?" she said doubtfully.

"Two dollars would buy you some new stockings and handkerchiefs." "I will do without them, mother.