Castle's lessons in horsemanship he thought
that he would stay with the candy venders all the season cheerfully
rather than take six more lessons of Mr. Castle.
Night after night he fell asleep from the sheer exhaustion of crying,
as he had been pouring out his woes in the old monkey's ears and
laying his plans to run away. Now more than ever was he anxious
to get away, and yet each day was taking him farther from home and
consequently necessitating a larger amount of money with which to
start. As Old Ben did not give him as much sympathy as Toby thought
he ought to give -- for the old man, while he would not allow Mr.
Job Lord to strike the boy if he was near, thought it a necessary
portion of the education for Mr. Castle to lash him all he had a
mind to -- he poured out all his troubles in the old monkey's ears,
and kept him with him from the time he ceased work at night until
he was obliged to commence again in the morning.
The skeleton and his wife thought Toby's lot a hard one, and tried
by every means in their power to cheer the poor boy. Neither one
of them could say to Mr. Castle what they had said to Mr. Lord, for
the rider was a far different sort of a person and one whom they
would not be allowed to interfere with in any way. Therefore poor
Toby was obliged to bear his troubles and his whippings as best
he might, with only the thought to cheer him of the time when he
could leave them all by running away.
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