His companions made fun of him because he would not join them.
He made a little money by extra work.
He hired a teacher, to whom he recited evenings.
He was often very tired, but he never complained.
He had many friends because he was always good-natured.
He used often to say to himself, "If ever I get rich I will build a place where the poor girls and boys of New York may have an education free."
Wasn't that a queer thought for a boy who earned only fifty cents a week?
Yet perhaps his even dreaming such dreams helped him to do the great things of which I shall tell you.
Now, Peter noticed that the tools which they worked with in the carriage shop were not very good.
So he began to try to make better ones.