Dey comes here and asks for charity and credit, shust as if a man vas made of monish .-- Gootness gracious! I don't pelieve dat te peoples who comes here every tay is as pad off as tey vish to appear." "You are mistaken, sir," Mrs.Wentworth replied, "if you think I have come here without being actually in want of the food, I ask you to let me have on credit.

Necessity, and dire necessity alone, has prompted me to seek an obligation of you, and if you require it I am willing to pay double the amount you charge, so that my poor children are saved from starvation." "I reckon you vill," Mr.Swartz said, "but ven you vill pay ish te question." "I could not name any precise day to you," answered Mrs.Wentworth.

"I can only promise that the debt will be paid.

If I cannot even pay it myself, as soon as my husband is exchanged he will pay whatever you charge." "Dat ish a very doubtful vay of doing pisness," he remarked.

"I cannot do as you ask." "Consider, sir," she replied.