As soon as they were in the street, and had begun breakfast while walking toward South Ferry, he asked his companion regarding business during his absence, and received a most satisfactory reply.
"I've been gettin' along first-class," Teddy said; "an' we've got a good big capital to begin on."
"But I'm dead broke," Carrots replied, mournfully. "I spent some of my money when I went out with the farmer, an' the rest of it while I was walkin' in yesterday."
"You can't be broke so long's you've still kept your interest in the firm, an' that eighty-six cents has grown to more'n two dollars."
"But I don't own a share of it."
"Course you do, an we won't have any talk 'bout it either. I 'lowed you'd stay longer'n you did, and so wanted you to take the whole of the cash; but you wouldn't, an' we're pardners jest the same's if you'd been here all the time, 'cause your money was in town even if you wasn't."
"But I didn't do any work, did I?"
"It doesn't make any more difference now than it did when I was locked up in the station-house. I didn't work then, but you made me take all the profits. It seems to me it would be a good idea to buy another box and brushes. I've had such luck with this, an' earned so much more'n I did with only the papers, that we'd better keep the two goin'."
"All right," Carrots replied, enthusiastically. "I'll get a new one, an' sell papers too."
"Do you s'pose you can buy a box ready-made?"