"It pays very well in its way, Roger," observed Uncle Mark; "but work is better.  If you can combine the two, I have no objection; but you are now too old to play, and, for your own sake, you should do your best to gain your own living.  While you were young, I was ready to work for you; and so I should be now, if you could not work for yourself.  I want you, however, to understand that it is far nobler for a man to labour for his daily bread, than to allow others to labour for him."