Bill's Mistake; A Story of the California Redwoods (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. WHEREIN BILL MAKES A MISTAKE. "Doesn't it seem good, Bill?to think there are no lessons to get to-night?" Tom remarked with a beaming face, as the two boys waited in their room for the expected company. He was reclining in a rocker with head thrown back, gazing at a picture of George Washington on the opposite wall, which his aunt had given him for a birthday present. "For my part I'm tired of this thing of studyin' three or four hours every night." "Yes, Tom, it does seem good. But I don't know about your studying three or four hours every night," Bill answered from his bed, where he had stretched himself out for a few minutes' rest. Soon after Bill's arrival in Santa Cruz, when he and Tom began to get "chummy" Tom got his aunt to let Bill have a room in her house. She was very glad to have the extra money that Bill paid her each week; Bill was glad because it was more reasonable for him than where he had previously boarded; and Tom was glad so that he had somebody to talk to, night and day; so they were all satisfied. Later?when Tom and Bill got still "chummier" ?Tom asked his aunt to let Bill move his bed into his room, so that they could talk without having to call through the wall. So here they were in their bedroom as well as reception-room, for it was a good-sized apartment and served them for all purposes. Their room opened onto a side porch so that it could be used without disturbing the rest of the house. "Didn't I commence studyin' last night at seven, and wasn't I still studyin' at eleven?" Tom replied to Bill's comment. "You did last night, but that's only once; besides, you only did it in order that you might get your experiments written up, so you could get through. If you hadn't left it until the last thing, you wouldn't have had to do ...