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.

He was too economical to pay a cartman a quarter; but what would have seemed mean in a man was praiseworthy in a boy laboring for a noble end.
Probably a great many of my young readers in Bobby's position, thinking that sixteen dollars, which our hero had in his pocket, was a mint of money, would have been in favor of being a little magnificent,--of taking a carriage and going up-town in state.