lof the smallest size. The rent of the
little shop, tenement and garden, was
(five pounds a year; and a few pennies
earned by the youngest of them was
of great account.
1 But continued the father, speaking
cheerily, I am not the one that ought
to complain. Many i themnn that ha<
a harder lot of it than I. among the
nailers along these hills and in the val
ley. My neighbor in the next dooi
'could tell something about labor von
may never have heard the like of in
your country. He is an older man
than I. and there are seven of them in
ibis family; and for all that he has no
boy like Jemmy here to help him.—
Some of his little girls arc sickly, and
their mother is not very strong, and it
all comes on him. He is an oldish
| man as I was saying, yet not only
works eighteen hours every day at
his forge, but every Friday in the year
he works all night long, and never lays
oil his clothes till late of Satutday night
■ A good neighbor is John Stubbing, and
the only man just in our neighborhood
, that can read the newspaper. It is not 1
often he gets a newspaper; for it is not I
the like ol us that can have newspapers
and bread, too, in out house at the
same time. But nowand then he begs
an old one, partly torn, at the baker’s,
and reads it to us of a Sunday night.
