$1423.50 -- ------ $2048.50 Mr.Bell meditated carefully on these figures.

To think of that child's labor footing up to two thousand dollars and over! It was lucky a man had a wife and daughters to do this work, or he could never support a family.
Then came her school-teaching years.

She had always been a fine scholar and he had felt very proud of his girl when she got a good school position in her eighteenth year.
California salaries were higher than eastern ones, and times had changed too; the year he taught school he remembered the salary was only $300.00--and he was a man.

This girl got $600, next year $700, $800, $900; why it made $3,000 she had earned in four years.Astonishing.

Out of this she had a balance in the bank of $550.00.