Now all this may be done, by your simply giving up your tobacco, beer and oysters, and your day's holiday once a month.

Is not the result worth the trifling sacrifice, Johnson ?" "It certainly is," was the serious reply.

"You have presented a very attractive picture, and I suppose it is a true one." "It is, you may depend upon it.

Every journeyman mechanic, if he be industrious and have a prudent, economical wife, as you have, may accumulate a snug little property, and live quite at his ease, when he passes the prime of life.

Is it not all very plain to you." "It certainly is, and I am determined that I will try to get a-head just in the way that you describe.