If it wasn't for that, you wouldn't find me crying fish about the streets in the spring, and berries through the summer, to get bread for my children.

He could support us all comfortably, if he was only sober; for he has a good trade, and is a good workman.

He used to earn ten and sometimes twelve dollars a week." "How much do you make towards supporting your family ?" I asked.
"Nearly all they get to live on, and that isn't much," she said bitterly.

"My husband sometimes pays the rent, and sometimes he doesn't even do that.

I have made as high as four dollars in a week, but oftener two or three is the most I get." "How in the world can you support yourself, husband, and four children on three dollars a week ?" "I have to do it," was her simple reply.