Before the seventeen dollars were exhausted, he had earned quite a sum by his labor in the carpenter's-shop.
About this time he received a letter from his brother.
"Dear James," he wrote, "I shall be glad to hear how you are getting along.

You took so little money with you that you may need more.

If so, let me know, and I will try to send you some." James answered promptly: "Don't feel anxious about me, Thomas.

I have been fortunate enough to secure work at a carpenter's-shop, and my expenses of living are very small.

I intend not to call upon you or mother again, but to pay my own way, if I keep my health." He kept his word, and from that time did not find it necessary to call either upon his mother or his good brother, who was prepared to make personal sacrifices, as he had been doing all his life, that his younger brother might enjoy advantages which he had to do without.
At length the summer vacation came.