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`` Do them just as you like , '' the old man said . After settling upon his subject , Frank set to work , and , except that he went out for five minutes to buy and eat a penny loaf , continued his work till nightfall . The old man came in several times to look at him , but each time went out again without making a remark . At six o'clock Frank laid down his tools . `` I will come again tomorrow , sir , '' he said . The old man nodded , and Frank went home in high spirits . There was a prospect at last of getting something to do , and that in a line most congenial to his own tastes .