His uses in Wareville were not merely mental and spiritual.

He was at all times able and willing to earn his own bread with his own strong hands, though the others seldom permitted him to do so.
Henry entered school with some reluctance.

Being nearly sixteen now, with an unusually powerful frame developed by a forest life, he was as large as an ordinary man and quite as strong.

He thought he ought to have done with schools, and set up in man's estate but his father insisted upon another winter under Mr.Pennypacker's care and Henry yielded.
There were perhaps thirty boys and girls who sat on the rough wooden benches in the school and received tuition.

Mr.Pennypacker did not undertake to guide them through many branches of learning, but what he taught he taught well.