“You’re joking,” remarked Alphonso, rather bewildered.
“No, I am not. I have been engaged to teach five evenings in the week.”
“I didn’t know you were such a scholar,” said Mr. Jones, surprised. “Do they pay you much?”
“Two dollars an evening.”
“Good gracious! That is splendid pay.”
“Yes, it is very good pay.”
“Where are you to teach?”
“Mr. Vivian’s son.”
“He don’t know that you have been a newsboy, does he?”
“Yes, he does; he saw me selling papers in the street to-day.”