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70. THE FIRST GLASS OF WINE;

 

had it not been for the children, I think J
_ should just have starved rather than do it.

sos We sold our little place, packed up
our silver and all the things we could carry
with us, and came to America. But when
we got here, we found that gold did not
rain down out of the skies any more than it
lid at home, and if one wanted money, one
must be willing to work for it.

‘¢« The work did not come. My hus-
band could have got something to do often,
but he had always been a master workman,
and scorned such jobs as he had been unac-
customed to.

_‘*¢ Meanwhile we were boarding, and our
money was gradually slipping away from us:
It went faster and faster. Then my hus-
band began to bé much away from home,

looking f for work, he said, but being a stran-.