Read the following passage from the adventures of tom sawyer and answer the question below.
and when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, tom was literally rolling in wealth.
what is the meaning of this statement?
tom has charged his friends money to paint the fence.
tom’s neighbors have paid him to paint their fences too.
aunt polly has paid tom a large allowance for painting the fence.
tom’s friends have given him prized objects to paint the fence.

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.