IN WHICH BOBBY SETS OUT ON HIS TRAVELS Squire Lee, though only a plain farmer, was the richest man in Riverdale.

He had taken a great fancy to Bobby, and often employed him to do errands, ride the horse to plough in the cornfields, and such chores about the place as a boy could do.

He liked to talk with Bobby because there was a great deal of good sense in him, for one with a small head.
If there was any one thing upon which the squire particularly prided himself, it was his knowledge of human nature.

He declared that he only wanted to look a man in the face to know what he was; and as for Bobby Bright, he had summered him and wintered him, and he was satisfied that he would make something in good time.
He was not much astonished when Bobby opened his ambitious scheme of going into business for himself.

But he had full faith in his ability to work out a useful and profitable, if not a brilliant, life.