Why couldn't he do the same?
He liked the suggestion, and from that time, wherever he happened to be, he asked for lodging, or the meal he required, and he always proposed to pay for what he had, but very few would take any thing.
On Friday noon he had sold out.

Returning to the railroad station, he found that the train would not leave for the city for an hour; so he improved the time in examining and balancing his accounts.

The book sales amounted to just fifty dollars, and after his ticket to Boston was paid for, his expenses would amount to one dollar and fifty cents, leaving a balance in his favor of fifteen dollars.

He was overjoyed with the result, and pictured the astonishment with which his mother, Squire Lee, and Annie would listen to the history of his excursion.
After four o'clock that afternoon he entered the store of Mr.Bayard, bag and baggage.

On his arrival in the city, he was considerably exercised in mind to know how he should get the trunk to his destination.