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Returning to the railroad station , he found that the train would not leave for the city for an hour ; so he improved the time in examining and balancing his accounts . The book sales amounted to just fifty dollars , and after his ticket to Boston was paid for , his expenses would amount to one dollar and fifty cents , leaving a balance in his favor of fifteen dollars . He was overjoyed with the result , and pictured the astonishment with which his mother , Squire Lee , and Annie would listen to the history of his excursion . After four o'clock that afternoon he entered the store of Mr. Bayard , bag and baggage . On his arrival in the city , he was considerably exercised in mind to know how he should get the trunk to his destination . He was too economical to pay a cartman a quarter ; but what would have seemed mean in a man was praiseworthy in a boy laboring for a noble end . Probably a great many of my young readers in Bobby 's position , thinking that sixteen dollars , which our hero had in his pocket , was a mint of money , would have been in favor of being a little magnificent -- of taking a carriage and going up-town in state .