Chapter 99
Something"I MEAN to be somebody, and do something useful in the
world," said the eldest of five brothers. "I don't care how humble
my position is, so that I can only do some good, which will be
something. I intend to be a brickmaker; bricks are always wanted,
and I shall be really doing something."
"Your 'something' is not enough for me," said the second
brother; "what you talk of doing is nothing at all, it is
journeyman's work, or might even be done by a machine. No! I should
prefer to be a builder at once, there is something real in that. A
man gains a position, he becomes a citizen, has his own sign, his
own house of call for his workmen: so I shall be a builder. If all
goes well, in time I shall become a master, and have my own
journeymen, and my wife will be t
