"I suppose you are employed in some way?"
"Yes; I sell papers."
"Then you are a newsboy?"
"Yes, madam."
"I suppose you cannot save very much?"
"If I make seventy-five cents a day I consider myself quite lucky. It is more than I average."
"Surely you can't live on that—I mean the three of you?"
"Mother earns something by making shirts; at least, she has done so; but yesterday she was told that she would not have any more work at present."
"And your brother—he is too young to work, I suppose?"
"Yes, madam."