M. It was paid me this morning for a pair of socks which I knit last week.
J. Is that your regular employment?
M. No, Sir, I work at the cotton factory; and my father, and mother, and little brother, work there also.
J. How could you find time to make the socks?
M. They were only small ones; I knit them last week, very early in the morning and during the dinner hour.
J. Then you have worked very hard to help your poor neighbour?
M. Was it not my duty, Sir? has not God told us to do so? [added she, modestly, and not in the boasting way in which some children talk about any good they have done.]
J. Did you buy any wood for Thomas before to-day?
M. No, Sir; last Saturday I had earned three-halfpence, but I lost them while I was running to the shop.
J. I suppose you were very sorry?