"I've been workin' ten years, and I ain't saved up a third of it." "I don't doubt it," said Seth; "and it ain't your fault, either.
Money's scarce round here, and farmin' don't pay.

You know what I was workin' at before I went out--in a shoe shop.

I just about made a poor livin', and that was all.

I didn't have money enough to pay my passage out, but I managed to borrow it.

Well, it's paid now, and I've got something left." "You haven't told us yet how much the man made that you was talkin' about," said Tom Sutter.