Harper’s Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by various

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he did tasks rapidly and well. In these manners he procured enough to pay for his straw in Mrs. Earthy colored’s basement, and to purchase enough to eat to keep life in him.

Charley’s straw was close to Biddy’s straw, and when he came in that evening Biddy murmured to him about her doll, revealing to him particularly how one of its arms was severed at the elbow. Charley put out his hand in obscurity, and requested that her let him take the doll a second. He felt it over cautiously, and gave it back without saying anything. Biddy murmured somewhat more, and afterward they rested.