I merely wanted to get into a village, and to earn some money.
"My father got me a place in the nearest town,--Summerside,--a village of about one thousand inhabitants.

For my first year's work I was to receive thirty dollars and my board.

Think of that, young men of to-day! Thirty dollars a year for working from seven in the morning until ten at night! But I was glad to get the place.

It was a start in the world, and the little village was like a city to my country eyes.
"From the time I began working in the store until to-day, I have always supported myself, and during all the years of my boyhood I never received a penny that I did not earn myself.

At the end of my first year, I went to a larger store in the same town, where I was to receive sixty dollars a year and my board.