After the first year, if he likes us, and we like him, we may give him seventy-five or a hundred dollars." Poor Mrs.Mayberry's countenance fell immediately.
"I wouldn't think of his going out now, if it were not in the hope of his earning something," she said, in a disappointed voice.
"How much did you expect him to earn ?" was asked by the storekeeper.
"I didn't know exactly what to expect.

But I supposed that he might earn four or five dollars a week." "Five dollars a week is all we pay our porter an abled-bodied, industrious man," was returned.

"If you wish your son to become acquainted with mercantile business, you must not expect him to earn much for three or four years.

At a trade you may receive from him barely a sufficiency to board and clothe him, but nothing more." This declaration so damped the feelings of the mother that she could not reply for some moments.

At length she said-- "If you will take my boy with the understanding, that, in case I am not able to support him, or hear of a situation where a salary can be obtained, you will let him leave your employment without hard feelings, he shall go into your store at once." To this the man consented, and Hiram Mayberry went with him according to agreement.