She had no choice, poor soul, for unless she toiled they would starve.

So with James, her eldest son, she went forth into the world to better theirs and her own condition.

Lloyd went to live in Deacon Ezekiel Bartlett's family.

They were good to the little fellow, but they, too, were poor.

The Deacon, among other things, sawed wood for a living, and Lloyd hardly turned eight years, followed him in his peregrinations from house to house doing with his tiny hands what he could to help the kind old man.