I didn't want to take that thirty-five dollars, though I don't know what Mr.Hardhand would have done to us, if I hadn't." "Ellen said I ought to have given you a hundred, and I think so myself." "I am glad you didn't.

Too much money makes us fat and lazy." Mr.Bayard laughed at the easy self-possession of the lad--at his big talk; though, big as it was, it meant something.

When he proposed to go to the store, he told Bobby he had better stay at the house and rest himself.
"No, sir; I want to start out to-morrow, and I must get ready to-day." "You had better put it off till the next day; you will feel more like it then." "Now or never," replied Bobby.

"That is my motto, sir.

If we have anything to do, now is always the best time to do it.