Very few make over two dollars a week, and some never go beyond a dollar.

Many of them are mothers, and most of them have some one or more dependent upon them.

Food, rent, clothes, and fuel, all have to come out of these small earnings By what hocus-pocus it is done, I must confess, puzzles me to determine." "Oh, as to that," returned Grasp, "it is, no doubt, managed well enough.

Provisions, and every thing that poor people stand in need of, are very cheap.

The actual necessaries of life cost but little, you know.