This was not a very serious labor--indeed, it was more a pleasure than a toil, for she was working for the comfort of one she loved.
"Would I not rather do this than live as I have lived for the past three years ?" she would sometimes say to herself, from the very satisfaction of mind she felt.

"Yes, a hundred times!" A year passed away without any additional income.

No! we forget there has been an income, and a very important one; it consists in the dearest little babe that ever a mother held tenderly to her loving breast, or ever a father bent over and looked upon with pride.

Before the appearance of this little stranger, and while his coming was anxiously looked for, there was a due portion of anxiety felt by Mr.Bancroft, as to how the additional expense that must come, would be met.

He did not see his way clear.