But the work proved altogether beyond the strength of the boy.

The shoemaker's bench was not his place, and the making of shoes for his kind was not the mission for which he was sent into the world.

And now again poverty, the great scene-shifter, steps upon the stage, and Fanny Lloyd and her two boys are in Baltimore on that never-ending quest for bread.

She had gone to work in a shoe factory established by an enterprising Yankee in that city.

The work lasted but a few months, when the proprietor failed and the factory was closed.