You will be paid weekly wages and perhaps be entitled to a portion of the profits--more than enough to support you all comfortably.

What do you say?
Shall we have a new firm in the village?
"GRAVES & BURKE." Andy's eyes sparkled with proud anticipation.

It was so far above any dream he had ever formed.
"It's what I'd like above all things," he said.

"Oh, what will mother say?
I must go and tell her." "Go, by all means, Andy, and when you have told her, come back, and I'll go over with you to Mr.Graves' store, and we'll talk over the arrangements with him." Mrs.Burke's delight at her own success and that of Andy may be imagined.

She, too, had been getting despondent, and it seemed almost like a fairy tale to find herself the owner of a house, and her boy likely to be taken into partnership with the principal trader in the village.