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leave your employment without hard feel-
ings, he shall go into your store at once.”
To this the man consented, and Hiram
Mayberry went with him according to
agreement. A few weeks passed, and the
lad, liking both the business and his em-
ployer, his mother felt exceedingly anxious
for him to remain. But she sadly feared
that this could not be. Her little store
was just about exhausted, and the most
she had yet been able to earn by working
for the shops, was a dollar and a half a
week. This was not more than sufficient
_ to buy the plainest food for her little flock.
It would not pay rent, nor get clothing.
To meet the former, recourse was had to
the sale of her husband’s small, select li-
brary. Careful mending kept the younger
children tolerably decent, and by altering
for him the clothes left by his father, she
was able to keep Hiram in a suitable con-
dition to appear at the store of his em-
ployer.
Thus matters went on for several months,