CHAPTER X.
BEN DINES IN MT. VERNON STREET.
As there was considerable time to be filled up, Ben went about the city under the guidance of Adelbert, and got a fair idea of it. Never before having been in any city, he was quite impressed with the size of Boston.
“I suppose New York is still larger,” he said to his cousin.
“So I hear, but I have never been there.”
“It will seem strange to me living in so large a place.”
“Large places seem to agree with you. This is your first day in Boston, and you have already made thirty-five dollars.”
“I don’t expect to follow it up with such luck.”
“Probably not. If you could make that sum once a week you would do better than most boys of your age.”
A little before two o’clock the boys rang the bell at Mr. Wentworth’s house on Mt. Vernon Street.