CHAPTER IV.
I EDUCATE MYSELF FOR CONTINGENCIES.
Next day I laid up for myself a course of study—physical and intellectual. In the morning I read and studied my books; during the day I worked at my carpentry; towards evening I indulged in shooting, in gymnastics, and sports of that nature; and at night I again returned to my books. I improved every day.
About a week after the events of the last chapter, M. Drouet, and two friends came to my uncle’s.
M. Drouet and his friends shook me by the hand. He asked me how I was getting on, and I told him all, regretting at the same time that I had no money to buy books, or get instruction in Latin.
“No money!” said Jean Baptiste. “Who hinders you from making it?”
“Making it?” I answered. “But how?”
“With your plane, of course.”
“But, Monsieur Drouet, I have no customers.”
“I will find them for you.”