As for your father's debt, I wouldn't let you pay it if you were made of money.

Better take home some tea, coffee and sugar with you, hadn't you?
It is always a good plan to replenish before you get entirely out, you know." "O, we were out long ago," said David, who could not help smiling at the mistake Silas made in supposing that tea, coffee and sugar appeared on his mother's table every day.

"We haven't had any in our house for almost a month." "Is that so ?" exclaimed the grocer, "Then I'll put up some for you, and lend you a basket to carry it home in." David leaned upon the counter and began a little problem in mental arithmetic, with the view of ascertaining how much of his money it would take to keep his mother supplied with the luxuries the grocer had mentioned for one month, and how much he would have left to invest in clothing for her; but before the problem was solved the grocer had placed three neat packages, good-sized ones, too, on the counter, and was looking for a basket to put them in.
"Now, then," said he, briskly, "what next?
A dress for mother or a pair of shoes for yourself?
The mornings are getting to be pretty cold now, and you can't run around barefooted much longer.

Ah, Dan! how do you do ?" David looked up and was surprised to see his brother standing by his side.

He was surprised, too, to notice that the grocer greeted him almost as cordially as he had greeted himself but a few minutes before.