Total expenses$166.16
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Balance$153.84
Henry Burns’s share76.92
Jack Harvey’s share76.92
“Hooray!” cried Harvey, waving the paper, triumphantly. “I wonder what my dad would say to that. I’ll bet he’d be pleased. That’s the first money I ever earned.”
“Well, why don’t you write him about it?” suggested Henry Burns, with a wink at Tom. “You’re feeling pretty strong after the summer’s sailing.”
“Say, I never thought of that,” exclaimed Harvey. “I’ll do it—that is, I’ll do it some day—say—well, some rainy day when I’ve nothing else to do.”
“You like to write letters about as well as I do,” said Henry Burns, laughing. “But I’ll tell you what I’ll do. You write to your father, and I’ll write and tell old Mrs. Newcome what we’ve done this summer with the boat. She’d be pleased to know about it.”
“All right,” said Harvey. “It’s a bargain—that is, some day when it’s raining good and hard and nothing else to do. Perhaps you’ll let me read your letter over first. It will sort of give me an idea what to say.”