JACK’S WAY. = 127

it, giving him a little money for every
piece he brought.”’

“How much?’ said Rollo.

‘““O, sometimes only a cent, and some-
times two or three cents. Once he got a
ten-cent piece for a bar which came out of
an old chimney. The men gave it to him,
because he helped them about their work.
He got the boys at school, too, to bring him
all the old iron they could find about their
houses, and he paid them by making whis-
tles and little boats. At length he got two
dollars.

‘“'Then he considered every thing ready,
and determined to set off, without any far-
ther delay. So, one moonlight night, after
his father and mother had gone to bed, and
he thought they had had time to go to sleep,
he got up softly, and took his best clothes
out of his drawer, and put them on. He put
his money, which was all in small change,
into his pocket. He crept out of his cham-
ber window down upon the roof over the
kitchen, and walked along that, till he came
to the end of it; then he climbed down to a
shed, and from the lower edge of the shed to
a high fence, and thence safe to the ground.