been made by George Barry, on first entering into business as a street merchant. This saved a good deal of troub
when he returned to supper, "hav
s," said Paul, "to tend a necktie st
he pay you, Pau
much do you think I hav
ty c
ee cents? Just look at this,"
is exc
lly, I shan't make more
be doing
me this afternoon. I wish everybody would do that. Now, mother, I
ready,
as clean, and everything looked neat. All did justice to the plain meal, and never thought of envying the thousands who, in th
" asked Mrs. Hoffman, not
ge Barry, and carry the mone
does he
treet. I shan'
given him. It was a large, four-story h
er to his question-"he lives upstairs
stairs, and found the r
opened by Mrs. Barry, who
arry live here
ne he left in charg
he affirmative, ad
ing to have a fever. It's fortunate he came ho
I see
" said Mr
as a cheap sewing-machine in one corner, and some plain furniture. There was a be
an, mother?" was he
aul, answerin
said Mrs. Barry. "My
el now, George
give up a minute too soon. I th
id Paul. "Still, you have you
ng without her. Can you look after
e nothing e
By the way, how many ties d
fte
arry, in surprise.
es
d so many as that
ul, gratified. "Then
y. How did
persuaded to buy six, as he could not get them so chea
sell more than six i
determined to do my best. I don'
business more than a year; and I know
dollars and seventy-five cents. I keep one-fourth of this as
You may need to change a bill, or else lose a sale. It
George. Suppose I should take a
not af
give you warning
offered to come up the next evening, but George Barry said, "It would be too much to exp
e Saturday. I hope I shall have some good sale
s own, and the entire profits his. This would double his income, and enable him to save up money. At pre
e-perhaps smaller. I have seen boys, who did not appear to be more than four years old, standing at the corners, crying the news in their childish treble. But Paul was not willing to have Jimmy sent out into the streets to undergo the rough discipline of street life. He was himself of a strong, robust nature, and did not shrink from the rough and tumble of life. He felt sure he could make his way, and give as well as receive blows. But Jimmy was shy and retiring, of a timid
amily in comfort required
reakfast for the street stand, wondering
he forenoon Mrs. Hoff
tay alone for an hour o
ture which he was copying from one of the drawing-bo
ave got half-a-dozen shirts done, an
enty-five cents apiece, mother. How
ly a
ollar and a half
at price, so it won't do for me to complain. I shall be
Mrs. Hoffman, gathering
equire long. She entered the large door, and advanced to the
as she laid the bun
ix
am
ffm
I will loo
work critically. Luckily there was no fault to
, taking from a drawer the s
ore?" asked Mrs. H
ed with goods made up. We mu
e heart of the poor woman. What she could ear
ou can give me some
or six weeks," he a
arted for home, making up her mind to look elsewhere for work in the afternoon. She could not help recalling, with sorrow, the time when her husband was living, and they lived in a pleasant little home, before the shadow of bereavement and pecuniary anxiety had