'But just wait awhile, Ned. He said also, "that as soon as the people here found that they could purchase goods of us cheaper than they had been accustomed to, and get a larger price for their produce than they had ever received, which you will be able to do by trading here, you will not only get all the business of the place, but they will be stimulated to raise a great deal more, and so every year you will find your trade increasing;" and he said, "before two years, you will require a large sloop to do your carrying business."' 'Just hear that, Sam--hurra!' 'Now, Ned, keep quiet; it is not accomplished yet; and things may not work just as Mr. Thomas thinks they will.' 'Oh, but I say, Jim, it will work--I know it will--hurra! Only to think of it--a large sloop in two years--hurra! Why don't you hurra, Sam? You will be captain of her--you know you will.' 'I could hurra, Ned, if it would do any good, for I feel as glad as you do; but it is not always best to make a noise about it.' Sam had not forgotten the alarm he had received from Ned's shouting a few day's back. 'Well, I don't see what you and Jim are made of: where's the use of any thing good, if a body can't let it out a little?' Jim soon got Ned back to real business, by asking him to read over the bill of goods, and call off the articles, while he and Sam examined them, and placed them away in readiness for use. We must now leave our boys, for a time, to try their new experiment, in order that we may bring forward the other parts of our story. CHAPTER XII. Henry Tracy found himself surrounded by not only a large number of scholars, but such as listened to him with the strictest attention, and applied themselves to their tasks with unusual diligence. It was, however, to him a sad sight, to behold so many of them, and some almost his own age, commencing the first principles of education. The labours which devolved upon him were arduous, but the more he found to do, the greater was the interest he took, and the more untiring his zeal for their benefit. He walked amid his little community with no lordly air; great indeed was the disparity between his attainments and those of his pupils, but he felt it not, or felt it only to humble himself before God, that so superior had been his advantages.