“Paul Hoffman. Don't you remember my running against you a day or two since?”
“Oho! you're the boy, then. You nearly knocked the breath out of me.”
“I am very sorry, sir.”
“Of course you didn't mean to. Is this your stand?”
“No, sir; I am tending for the owner, who is sick.”
“Does he pay you well?”
“He gives me half the profits.”
“And does that pay you for your labor?”
“I can earn about a dollar a day.”
“That is good. It is more than I earned when I was of your age.”