btaining work. But everywhere she was met with the stereotyped reply, "Business is so dull that w
use to make any further applications, and w
to herself. "I cannot throw upon Paul th
o take in washing, nor, if she had been, would Paul, who was proud for his mother, though not for himself, have consented to he
ht," she decided. "Perhaps by that ti
afternoon. Still his share of the profits amounted to a dollar and twelve cents, and he felt quite satisfied. His sales had been fifty p
m the direction of the Astor House. He remembered him as the one with whom he had accidentally come in col
, sir," said
to me?" inquired
bade you go
t remember you, thoug
remember my running again
hen. You nearly knocked
ery sor
dn't mean to. Is
nding for the own
e pay y
me half th
t pay you for
about a do
more than I earned wh
eed,
but I kept steadily at w
be rich some t
e same chanc
my mother and my little brother. I sho
er and a brother. W
tol
help supp
s,
entleman, approvingly. "Is your
or a Broadway store, but they only
ll. She can sew
fault is ever fo
e would make me
ly, for he knew that his new acquaintance woul
ice I usually pay-t
ve times the price Mrs Hoffman had been accustomed to receive. A dozen shirts would co
accept the work thankfully, and will try to
will give you a pattern, and an order for th
o you li
y-fourth and Thirty-fifth streets. My
will put it dow
good-mo
suppose you don't wa
omed to wear," said Mr. Preston, smiling. "I
one, when two boys of twelve or
d George, the elder of the two.
eff. "Only twenty-five cents
buy one,
name was Jefferson. "We can wear th
d this, in addition to previous sale
t Paul. "If I can make nine shillings every day I won'
lock, when he returned home to dinner, he had sold ten tie
bably in a month or six weeks business might so far improve that she could obtain work. But to Mrs. Hoffman it was a serious matter to remain idle even four weeks. She reflected that Paul's present employment was only temporary, and that he would be forced to give up his post as soon
that his mother looked more s
adache, mother
she said, sm
es you, I am sure
s. Hoffman, "though I didn't m
" asked Paul
e for Duncan & Co., they told me I couldn'
t, mother," said Paul, who wanted to
t afford to
ng money, mother. I am sure
on't know how we should get along without you. But it
mother; I am sure
ng the family should come upon you. Besides, you are no
I can't do anything else, I can turn bootblack, though I would pref
u can think of something. I shall go out this afternoon, and try my luc
wo or three weeks, that will pay five times as well as the work yo
aul?" asked his mother
man up-town that wants a dozen shirts made,
hy, that's a doll
ld him I thought you w
I can get th
ouse this evening and get the patt
" said his mother. "Why, I can
l be doing as
eard of it, Paul,"
manner in which he formed
ran into him, Pa
said Paul, laughing. "He said I ne
s afternoon, mother,
idn't think this morning that such a p