- CHAPTER III.

THE NEW SUIT OF CLOTHES.

“He that gathereth in summer is a wise son.”—Prvov. x. 5.

i|LTHOUGH our family always contrived to

 
 

make a decent and even respectable appear-
ance, we were poor. In his best days my father had
been a sea-captain, in which business he gained enough
to buy a small farm in the country, the object of his
fondest desires. Not long after his removal to our
new abode his health began to fail, and he was unable
to engage, to any great extent, in out-door occupa-
tions. A small sum invested in.some city stocks was
lost, and his three eldest boys died in childhood. So
that the -earliest remembrance of my parents is asso- _

ciated in my mind with traces of sorrow. I was a