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wonder if I could not earn a whole suit? JZ earn!
Yes; I could—I know I could. Now I will make up
my mind to it, as father says, and then I will do it,—I
will earn a new suit. Earn the money, and then take
it to mother, and‘ask her to buy the cloth. Won’t her
eyes twinkle?” .

Oh, well do I remember how delightfully the thought
struck me! In very joy I seized my small pillow,
threw it up in the air, and caught it. Then jumping
out of bed, I hopped round the room, playing curious

_antics all by myself while engaged in the more serious

occupation of dressing. How to earn the desired sum. —

began to engage my attention. “Yes, Aow? That is
the question.” I mused on “how.” “I cannot braid
palm-leaf—that is Mary’s and Jane’s work. Mr. Jones’s
harvesting is about over. I do not know of anybody
that wants wood cut. If ‘I could go into the woods
and dig up and sell sassafras roots, now, that would
be something ; but they do not buy them here. Jem
Crout says they sell them to druggists, and I ain sure

we have no such people here.”