So he did something else instead.
"John," he said, one morning, "I'm going to raise your salary to a hundred dollars a month." Instantly from the lad's bright eyes there shot a look of triumph.
"Thanks, Mr.Gale," was his hearty response.
"And in the meantime, Johnny, I want you to take a good solid month off." "All right, sir, thank you," John replied.

"But I guess it won't be quite a month.

I don't feel as if I needed it." The next day at the office he appeared resplendent in a brand-new suit of clothes, a summer homespun of light gray set off by a tie of flaming red.
There was nothing soft about that boy.

No, Johnny knew how to look out for himself.
And Roger went up to the farm..