What rent do you pay for this poor place ?" "Three dollars a month." "What! seventy-five cents a week! and not able to earn upon an average more than a dollar a week ?" "Yes, sir.

But I had better work through the summer, and sometimes earned two dollars, and even a little more, in a week." The doctor paused some time and then said-- "Well, Mrs.Gaston, it's no use for you to struggle on at this rate, even with your two remaining children.

You cannot keep a home for them, and cover their nakedness from the cold.

Now let me advise you." "I am ready to hear any thing, doctor." "What I would propose, in the first place--and that, in fact, is what has brought me in this morning--is that you put Henry out to a trade.

He is young, it is true; but necessity, you know, knows no law.