Oh! if he only had something to eat every day, he would be well enough.

But what would you have?
He has nobody left him, and when one gets to seventy the best is to throw oneself into the river.

In the house-painting line it often happens that a man has to give up working on ladders and scaffoldings at fifty.

He at first found some work to do on the ground level.

Then he was lucky enough to get a job as night watchman.