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POOR AND PROUD;
OR,
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN., 2toka fao  jong $gogs+
BY
OLIVER OPTIC,
AUTHOR OF " THE BOAT CLUB," "ALL ABOARD," " NOW OR NEVER,"
TRY AGAIN," " IN DOORS AND OUT," ETC.
B,O S T O N:
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & COMPANY.
1859.




Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED  AT THE
BOSTON  STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.




TO
ALICE MARIE ADAMS,
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED,
BY HER FATHER.








P R E F-1'A4; E.
BOBBY BRIGHT and Harry West, whose histories were
contained in the last two volumes of the "Library for
Young Folks,"' were both smart boys. The author, very
grateful for the genial welcome extended to these young
gentlemen, begs leave to introduce to his juvenile friends
a smart girl, - Miss Katy Redburn, - whose fortunes, he
hopes, will prove sufficiently interesting to secure their
attention.
If any of my adult readers are disposed to accuse me
of being a little extravagant, I fear I shall have to let the
case go by default; but I shall plead, in extenuation, that
I have tried to be reasonable, even where a few grains of
the romantic element were introduced; for Baron Munchausen and Sinbad the Sailor were standard works on
my shelf in boyhood, and I may possibly have imbibed
some of their peculiar spirit. But I feel a lively satisfaction in the reflection that, whatever exaggerations the
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6                     PREFACE.
critic may decide I have perpetrated in this volume, I have
made the success of Katy Redburn depend upon her good
principles, her politeness, her determined perseverance,
and her overcoming that foolish pride which is a snare to
~the feet. In these respects she is a worthy exemplar for
the young.
Pride and poverty do not seem to agree with each other;
but there is a pride which is not irreconcilable. with the
humblest station. This pride of character finds an illustration in the life of my heroine.
Thanking my young friends again for thp pleasant reception given to my former books, I submit this volume
in the hope that Katy Redburn will prove to be a worthy
and agreeable companion for their leisure hours.
WILLIAM T. ADAMS.
DORcHESTER, Sept. 29, 1858.




CONTENTS.
PAGE 
CHAP. I. — Katy Redburn and others are introduced... 11
CHAP. II. - The History of the Silver Watch.... 24
CHAP. III.- Katy and Master Simon Sneed visit the Pawnbroker's Shop... 35
CHAP. IV. -Katy matures a magnificent Scheme.. 47
CHAP. V. -Katy visits Mrs. Gordon, and gets rid of Dr.
Flynch.......... 60
CHAP. VI. - Katy prepares a Stock of Merchandise... 74
CHAP. VII. - Katy makes a large Sale....   86
CHAP. VIII. - Katy sells out, and visits the Mayor.. 98
CHAP. IX. —Katy talks with the Mayor, and recovers the
Watch.                                              111
CHAP. X. - Katy, in Distress, finds a Champion.... 123
CHAP. XI.- Katy meets with extraordinary Success.. 136
CHAP. XII. - Katy pays her Debts, and Tommy goes to Sea. <I650
CHAP. XIII. -Katy employs an Assistant... 162
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8                       CONTENTS.
CHAP. XIV. - Master Simon Sneed makes a Mistake... 176
CHAP. XV. - Katy gets a Letter from Liverpool.. 189
CHAP. XVI. —Ann Grippen plays Tricks upon Travellers.. 201
CHAP. XVII. - The Sun sets, and the Night comes on.. 214
CHAP. XVIII. - Katy struggles bravely through a Series of
Trials...........227'CHAP. XIX. - Katy resorts to a Loan.. 240
CHAP. XX. - Mrs. Gordon feels faint, and Katy enters a new
Sphere... 252
CHAP. XXI.- Katy goes to Church, and has a Birthday
Party..........269




POOR AND PROUD.








POOR AND PROUD;
OR,
THE FORTUNES OF, KATY REDBURN.
CHAPTER I.
KATY REDBURN AND OTHERS ARE INTRODUCED.
" GIVE me a flounder, Johnny? " said a little girl
of eleven, dressed in coarse and ragged garments, as
she stooped down and looked into the basket of thedirty young fisherman, who sat with his legs hanging
over the edge of the pier.
"I'll bet I won't," replied Johnny, gruffly, as he
drew the basket out of the reach of the supplicant.
"You needn't come round here tryin' to hook my
Yfish."
"You hooked'em," said another juvenile angler,
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12           POOR AND PROUD, OR
who sat on the capsill of the pier by Johnny's
side.
"Who says I hooked'em?" blustered Johnny,
whose little dirty paws involuntarily assumed the
form of a pair of fists, scientifically disposed and
ready to be the instruments of the owner's vengeance
upon the traducer of his character.
" I say so," added Tommy Howard, who did not
seem to be at all alarmed at the warlike attitude
of his fellow-angler.
" Say it again, and I'll smash your head," continued Johnny, jumping up from his seat.
"Didn't you hear me? Once is enough."
Tommy coolly hauled up a large flounder at that
moment, and threw the fish into his basket. It was
rather refreshing to see how regardless he was of that
pair of menacing fists.
"Jest you say that once more, and see what I'll
do," persisted Johnny.
".I won't do it."
"You dasen't say it again."
"Perhaps I dasen't; at any rate, I shan't."
"Do you mean to say I hooked them fish?" ex



TEE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    13
claimed Johnny, desperately, for it seemed as though
he must do something to vindicate his injured honor.
"That's just what I did say."
But Tommy was so confoundedly cool that his
fellow-angler had some doubts about the expediency
of "pitching into him."  Probably a vision of defeat flashed through his excit6d brain, and discretion
seemed the better part of valor. Yet he was not
disposed to abandon his position, and advanced a
pace or two towards his provoking companion; a
movement which, to an unpractised eye, would indicate a purpose to do something.
"Don't fight, Tommy," said-the little ragged girl.
"I don't mean to fight, Katy,"  Johnny, at these
words, assumed an artistic attitude, ready to strike
the first blow, —" only if Johnny hits me, I shall
knock him into the middle of next week."
Johnny did not strike. He was a prudent young
man.
"Don't fight, Johnny," repeated the girl, turning
to the excited aspirant for the honors of the ring.
"Do you suppose I'll let him tell me I hooked
them fish?" blustered Johnny.
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14          POOR AND PROUD, OR
" He didn't mean any thing."
"Yes I did," interposed Tommy. "He caught'em on a hook; so of course he hooked'em.  I
hooked mine too."
" Is that what you meant?' asked Johnny, a
broad grin overspreading his dirty face, and his fists
suddenly expanding into dirty paws again.
"That's just what I meant; and your skull is as
thick as a two-inch plank, or you would have seen
what I meant."
" I see now."
Johnny was not disposed to resent this last insinuation about the solidity of his -cranium. He was
evidently too glad to get out of the scrape without
a broken head or a bloody nose. Johnny was a
bully, and he had a bully's reputation to maintain;
but he never' fought when the odds were against
him; and he had a congressman's skill in backing
out before the water got too hot. On the whole, he
rather enjoyed the pun;' and he had the condescension to laugh heartily, though. somewhat unnaturally,
at the jest.
"Will you give me a flounder, Tommy?" said




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    15
the little ragged girl, as she glanced into his wellfilled basket.
"What do you want of him, Katy?" asked Tommy,
turning round and gazing up into her sad, pale face.
Katy hesitated; her bosom heaved, and her lips
compressed, as though she feared to answer the
question.
" To eat," she replied, at last, in a husky tone.
" What's the matter, Katy?"
The face of the child seemed to wear a load of
care and anxiety, and as the young fisherman gazed,
a tear started from her eye, and slid down her cheek.
Tommy's heart melted as he saw this exhibition of
sorrow. He wondered what could ail her.
" My mother is sick,"' replied Katy, dashing away
the telltale tear.
"I know that; but what do you want of flounders?"
"We have nothing to eat now," said Katy, bursting into tears.  "Mother has not been able to do
any work for more than three months; and we
haven't got any money now.  It's all gone.  I
haven't had any breakfast to-day."




16:POOR AND PROUD, OR
"Take'em all, Katy! " exclaimed Tommy, jumping up from his seat on the capsill of the pier.
"How will you carry them? Here, I will string'em for you."
Tommy was all energy now, and thrust his hands
down into the depths of his pockets in search of a
piece of twine. Those repositories of small stores
did not contain a string, however; but mixed up
with a piece of chalk, a slate pencil, an iron hinge,
two marbles, a brass ring, and six inches of stovepipe
chain, were two cents, which the owner thereof carefully picked out of the heap of miscellaneous articles,
and thrust them into the hand of Katy.
"Here, take them; and as you go by the grocery
at the corner of the court, buy a two-cent roll," whispered he. "Got a bit o' string, Johnny?" he added.aloud, as Katy began to protest against taking the
money.
A' Hain't got none; but I'll give you a piece of my
fish line, if you want," replied the bully, who was
now unusually obliging.
"There's a piece of spunyarn; that's just the thing
I want; " and Tommy ran half way up the pier to




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    17
the bridge, picked up the line, and commenced stringing the flounders on it.
"I don't want them all, Tommy; only give me
two or three. I never shall forget you, Tommy,"
said Katy, her eyes suffused with tears of gratitude.
" I'm sorry things go so bad with you, Katy, and I
wish I could do' something more for you."
" I don't want any thing more. Don't put any
more on the string. There's six. We can't eat any
more."
"Well, then, I'll bring you some more to-morrow," replied Tommy, as he handed her the string of
fish. "Stop a minute; here's a first-rate tom cod;
let me put him on;" and he took the string and
added the fish to his gift.
"I never shall forget you, Tommy; I shall only
borrow the two cents; I will pay you again some
time," said she, in a low tone, so that Johnny could
not hear her.
" Never mind'em, Katy. Don't go hungry again
for a minute. Come to me, and I'1 help you to
something or other."
"Thank you, Tommy;" and with a lighter heart
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than she had brought with her, she hastened up the
pier, no doubt anticipating a rich feast from the string
of fish.
The pier of the new South Boston bridge was
then, as now, a favorite resort for juvenile fishermen.
Flounders, tom-cod, and eels, to say nothing of an
occasional sculpin, which boys still persist in calling
" crahpies," or " crahooners," used to furnish abundant
sport to a motley group of youngsters, wherein the
sons of merchants mingled democratically with the
dirty, ragged children of the "tenfooters" in the
vicinity. - The pier was neutral ground, and Frederic
Augustus made a friend of Michael or Dennis, and
probably neither was much damaged by this free companionship; for Michael or Dennis often proves to be
more of a gentleman in his rags and dirty face, than
Frederic Augustus in his broadcloth and white linen.
Katy walked as fast as her little feet would carry
her, till she came to a court leading out of Essex
Street.  The bells were ringing for one o'clock as she
entered the grocery at the corner and purchased the
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    19
of her mission, she quickened her pace up the. court
to a run, rushed into the house and up stairs to her
mother's room with as much enthusiasm as though
she had found a bag of gold, instead of having obtained a very simple dinner.
"0  mother, I've got a lot of flounders and some
bread for you!" exclaimed she, as she bolted into
the room.
"Then you have money," said a cold voice in the
chamber; and Katy perceived, standing near the bed
on which her mother lay, a man who was no stranger
to her.
It was Dr. Flynch; but let not my young reader
make a mistake. He was no good Samaritan, who
had come to pour oil and wine into the wounds of the
poor sick woman; not even a physician, who had
come to give medicine for a fee, to restore her to
health and strength. It is true he was called a doctor, and he had been a doctor, but he did not practise
the healing art now. If he had- failed to make a
physician, it was not because'his heart was so tender
that he could not bear to look upon pain and suffering. He was the agent of Mrs. Gordon, a widow,




20           POOR AND PROUD, OR
lady, who owned the house in which Katy's mother
lived. He collected her rents, and transacted all her
business; and as far as dollars and cents were concerned, he had certainly been a faithful servant.
But Dr. Flynch was a prudent and discreet man, and
did not hurt the feelings of the good lady who employed him by telling her about the difficulties he
encountered in the discharge of his duty, or by describing the harsh and even cruel means to which he
was sometimes obliged to resort, in order to obtain
the rent of poor tenants.
"Mrs. Redburn," said Dr. Flynch, when he had
heard the exclamation of Katy, " you have told me a
falsehood. You said you had no money, not a cent.
Trhere did you get that roll, child?"
"At the" store at the corner of the court," replied
Katy, abashed by the cold dignity of the agent.
"Precisely so, Mrs. Redburn; but you do not buy
bread without money. You have attempted to deceive me. I have pitied you up to the present time,
and indulged you in the non-payment of your rent
for over a week. I can do so no longer, for you have
told me a falsehood."




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    21
"No, sir, I have not," pleaded the sick woman.
"Your child buys bread."
"I did not give her the money."
"Where did you get the money to buy that roll
with?" demanded Dr. Flynch, turning sharply to
Katy.
"Tommy Howard gave it to me."
"Who is Tommy Howard?"
"He lives on the other side of the court."
"Very probable that a dirty, ragged boy gave her
the money! This is another falsehood, Mrs. Redburn. I lament that a person in your situation should
have no higher views of Christian morality than to
lie yourself, and teach your child to lie, which is
much worse."'
The poor woman burst into tears, and protested
that she had told the truth, and nothing but the
truth; declaring that Katy was a good girl, that she
had eaten nothing that day, and would not tell a lie.
Dr. Flynch was a man of method, and when a tenant
did not pay the rent, it was his purpose to get rid of
that tenant in the quietest way possible. In the
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wduld not justify him in turning a sicr woman out
of the house; but if she lied, had money concealed,
and would not pay her rent, it would alter the matter. As he wished to believe this was the case, he
had no difficulty in convincing himself, and thus quieting his poor apology for a conscience.
Besides being a man of method, Dr. Flynch was a
man of upright walk and conversation; at least, he
passed for such with those who did not know any
thing about him. If Mrs. Gordon should happen to
hear that he had turned out the sick woman, he
could then inform her how feelingly he had pointed
out to her the wickedness of her conduct, which he
thought would sound exceedingly well.
" Mrs. Redburn," he continued, " I will give you
till this time to-morrow to get out of the house; if
you are not gone then, I shall be under the painful
necessity of removing your goods into the street.
Good morning;" and Dr. Flynch turned upon his
heel, and walked out of the room.
"My poor child! what will become of us? " sobbed
the sick woman, as she grasped Katy's hand, and
pressed it to her bosom with convulsive energy.




TIE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    23
"Don't cry, mother; something can be done'. I
will go and see Mrs. Gordon, and beg her to let you
stay here."
"You must not do that; Dr. Flynch told me, if I
troubled her about the house, I should not stay in it
another minute, even if I paid the rent."
"He is a bad man, mother; and I don't believe
Mrs. Gordon knows what he does here."
"There is one thing more we can do, Katy," continued Mrs. Redburn, wiping away her tears, and
taking from under her pillow a heavy silver watch.
"' This was your father's; but we must sell it now.
It is all we have left."
6" I should hate to have that sold, mother."
" Ve must sell it, or pawn it."
"We will pawn it then."
"How shall we do it?  I have not strength to
rise, and they will cheat you if you offer it."
"I will tell you what I can do, mother; I will get
Simon Sneed to go with me to the pawnbroker's shop.
He is very kind to me, and I know he will. He
comes home to dinner at two o'clock."
This plan was agreed to, and Katy then went to
work to clean and cook the flounders.




24           POOR AND PROUD, OR
CHAPTER II.
THE HISTORY OF THE SILVER WATCH.
KATY REDBURN was only eleven years old, and
not a very accomplished cook; but as the children
learn faster in the homes of the poor than in the
dwellings of the rich; she had a very tolerable idea of
the management of a frying pan. The operation of
cleaning the flounders was the greatest trial, for the
skin of the fish has to be removed. She cut her fingers with the knife, and scratched and pricked her
hands with the sharp bones; but she was resolute,
and finally accomplished the task to her entire satisfaction. An occasional direction from her mother
enabled her to cook the fish properly, and dinner was
rea'dy. There were still a few small stores left in the
closet, and Katy made a cup of tea for her mother,
and with it placed a delicate little flounder by the
side of the bed. The invalid had no appetite; but to




TIE FORTUNES OF KATY IEDBURN'.   25
please Katy she ate a portion of the fish and bread,
though it was very hard work for her to do so. The
little girl, gladdened by this unwonted sight, made a
hearty meal, without a thought of the trials and
sorrows which the future might have in store for
them.
When she had put away the dishes, and placed
every thing in order, she washed herself, combed her
hair, sewed up a great rent in her dress, and otherwise attempted to make herself as tidy as possible for
the mission she was about to undertake.
" It is not time for you to go yet, Katy; and before the watch is carried off, I want to tell you something about your father, that you may learn to prize
it as I do."
Katy seated herself on the side of the bed, for she
was very anxious to hear more about her father than
she already knew. She had often asked her mother
about him, butt she had generally evaded her questions, and did not seem willing to tell her all she
knew. She thought there was some secret connected
with his history, and with a child's curiosity she was
eager to have the mystery unfolded. But it was no
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26:OOR AND PROUD, OR
great secret, after all; only a painful history, which
her sensitive mother did not like to rehearse. Mrs.
Redburn handed the watch to Katy, and asked her
to look upon the back of it.
"Yes, mother, I have often seen those words on
there-' ALL FOR THE BEST.' What do they mean? "
said Katy.
"This watch was given to your father by my father," replied Mrs. Redburn, with a deep sigh, for
the words seemed to recall happy memories of the
past.
" Who was your father?" asked the attentive little
girl.' His name was Matthew Guthrie. He was a merchant in Liverpool, England, where I was born."' A merchant, mother?  Then he was a rich man,
and lived in a great house, and had plenty of servants."
"He was rich, and lived in good style. One day
there came a young man in great distress to his couniing room. He was a clerk, and had been sent by his
employer in Manchester to pay a large sum of money
to my father. After leaving the train, he had en



THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    27
tered an ale house, where he had been robbed of the
remittance. He had been imprudent, but instead of
running away, he went directly to my father, and informed him of his misfortune. The young man felt
that he was ruined, but he said he was determined
not to leave Liverpool. till he had found the money.
He was sure he knew the man who had robbed him,
and my father procured the services of several policemen to assist him in his search. All that day and
allthat night, attended by policemen, he visited the
resorts of vice and crime, and his perseverance was
rewarded with success. He found the man, and the
money was recovered. My father was so well pleased
with the energy of the young man, that he gave him
a situation in his counting room. That young man
was John Redburn, your father. My father gave him
a much larger salary than he had been receiving before, so that his misfortune in losing the money
proved to be a piece of good fortune to him, for it
procured him  a much better situation. The new
clerk performed his duties very faithfully, and at
the end of a year my father presented him  this
watch, with the motto' All for the Best,' in allusion




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to the manner in which he had obtained his situation."
"But how came you here, mother, if your father
was rich, and lived in a fine house? You are very
poor now;" asked Katy, who feared that the mystery was yet to come.
Mrs. Redburn burst into tears, and covered her
face with her hands, as the pleasant memories of her
former happy home rushed through her mind.
"Don't cry, mother; I won't ask you any more
questions," said Katy, grieved to find she had reminded her mother of some unpleasant thing.
"It was all my own fault, Katy. I am here, poor
and wretched, because I disobeyed my father; because I did what he desired me not to do. I will
tell you all about it, Katy. I became acquainted
with the new clerk, John Redburn, and the result of
our acquaintance was, that we were married in about
a year. We ran away from home; for my father,
however much he liked John as a clerk, was not
willing that he should be my husband. He forbade
John's coming to our house, and forbade my seeing
him. I disobeyed him. We were married, and John




THE FORTUNES'OF KATY REDBURN.    29
was discharged.  My father refused to see me
again."
"That was cruel," interposed Katy.
"My father was right, and I have always regretted
that I disobeyed him. We came to America, and
your father procured a situation in New York, where
you were born, about a year after we arrived. For
three years we got along very well. I wish I could
stop here, Katy, for the rest of the story is very sad."
"Don't tell me any more, mother; it makes you
feel so bad, I would rather not hear it.'I know now
why you value the watch so much, and I hope we
shall be able to get it back again."
"I fear not. But you must hear the rest of this
sad story."
Mrs. Redburn continued the narrative, though tears
blinded her eyes, and sobs choked her utterance, as
she told of the struggle she had had with poverty and
want. Her husband had done very well in New
York; and, gay and light-hearted in the midst of his
prosperity, his habits had been gradually growing
worse and worse, till he lost his situation, and became a common sot. The poor wife had then been
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30           POOR AND PROUD, OR
compelled to toil for her own support and that of her
child; and having been brought up in'4uxury and
ease, it was a dreadful task to her.
John obtained another situation, but soon lost it.
He was a good-hearted man when he had not been
drinking, and keenly felt the disgrace and misery he
was heaping upon himself and his unhappy wife.
Once he had the resolution to abandon the cup, fully
determined to redeem his lost character, and make
his family happy again.  The better to accomplish
this, he removed to Boston, where he obtained a good
situation, and for more than a year he adhered to his
resolution. iMrs. Redburn was happy again, and
tremblingly hoped that the clouds of darkness had
forever passed away.
The evil time came again, and John Redburn sank
down lower than ever before. His wife lost all hope
of him, and struggled, with the courage of a hero
and the fortitude of a martyr, against the adverse
tide that set against her. She was fortunate in obtaining plenty of sewing, and was able to support
herself and child very well; but her husband, now
lost to all sense of decency, contrived to obtain, from




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    31
time to time, a portion of her hard earnings. She
could never have believed that John Redburn would
come to this; for, as a clerk in her father's counting
room, he had been all that was good and noble; but
there he was, a miserable sot, lost to himself, to his
family, and the world.
One morning in winter he was brought -home to
her dead. He had died in the watch house of delirium tremens. He was buried, and peace, if not
hope, settled on the brow of the broken-hearted wife.
Year after year Mrs. Redburn struggled on, often
with feeble hands and fainting heart, to earn a subsistence for herself and Katy. She had been bred in
opulence, and her wants were not so few and simple
as the wants of those who have never enjoyed the luxury of a soft couch and a well-supplied table. She
had never learned that calculating economy which
provides a great deal with very small means. Hence
it was much harder for her to support herself and
child, than it would have been for one who had been
brought up in a hovel.
She had done very well, however, until, a few
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sick, and was no longer able to work. Her disease
was an affectiQn of the spine, which was at times very
painful, and confined her to the bed.
"But where is your father now?" asked Katy,
when her mother haa finished the narrative.
"I do not know; if he is alive, he probably lives
in Liverpool."
"Why don't you write a letter to him?"
"I have done so several times, but have never
received any reply. I wrote shortly after your father
died, giving an account of my situation. I am sure
my father never could have got my letter, or he would
have answered me. I know he would not let me
suffer here in woe and want, if he were aware of my
condition."
"Why don't you write again?"
"It is useless."
"Let me write, mother. I will call him  dear
grandfather, and I am sure he will send you some
money then: perhaps he will send for us to go to
Liverpool, and live in his great house, and have'servants to wait upon us."
"Alas, my child, I have given up all hope of ever




THE FORTUNES OF KATY'REDBURN.    33
seeing him again in this world. In my letters I
confessed my fault, and begged his forgiveness. He
cannot be alive, or I am sure my last letters would
have melted his heart."
"Haven't you any brothers and sisters, mother?"
"I had one sister; and I have written several letters to her, but with no better success. They may
be all dead. I fear they are."
"And your mother?"
"She died when I was young. I know Jane
would have answered my letters if she had received
them."
"She was your sister."
"Yes; she must be dead; and I suppose my
father's property must be in the hands of strangers,
covering their floors with soft carpets, and their tables with nice food, while I lie here in misery, and
my poor child actually suffers from hunger;" and
the afflicted mother clasped her daughter in her
arms, and wept as though her heart would burst.
"Don't cry, mother. I was not very hungry. We
have had enough to eat till to-day. I am going to
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long," replied Katy, as she wiped away the tears that
flowed down her mother's wan cheek.
"WVhat can you do, poor child?"
"I can do a great many things; I am sure I can
earn money enough to support us both."
"It is hard to think how much I have suffered,
and how much of woe there may be in the future for
me," sobbed Mrs. Redburn.
"Don't cry, mother. You know what it says on
the watch -'ALL FOR THE BEST.' Who knows
but that all your sorrows are for the best?"
"I hope they are; I will try to think they are.
But it is time for you to go. Pawn the watch for as
much as you can; and I trust that some fortunate
event will enable us to redeem it."
Katy took the watch, smoothed down her hair
again, put on her worn-out bonnet, and left the
house.




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CHAPTER III.
KATY AND MASTER SIMON SNEED VISIT THE
PAWNBROKER S SHOP.
THE court in which Katy lived had once been the
abode of many very respectable -families, to use a
popular word, for respectable does not always mean
worthy of respect on account of one's virtues, but
worthy of respect on account of one's lands, houses,
and money. In the former sense it was still occupied by very respectable families, though none of
them possessed much of the " goods that perish in
the using." Mrs. Redburn, the seamstress, was very
respectable; Mrs. Colvin, the washerwoman, was
very respectable; so were Mrs. Howard, the tailoress, Mr. Brown, the lumper, and Mr. Sneed, the
mason.
Katy's mother lived in a small house, with three
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she paid four dollars a month, the amount- of rent'now due and unpaid. Dr. Flynch took a great deal
of pleasure in telling Mrs. Redburn how his humanity and his regard for the welfare of the poor had
induced him to fix the rent at so cheap a rate; but
he always finished by assuring her that this sum must
be promptly paid, and that no excuses could ever
have any weight.
The next house to Mrs. Redburn was tenanted by
Mr. Sneed, the mason. I don't know whether I
ought to say that Mr.'Sneed had a son, or that Master Simon Sneed had a father, being at a loss to determine which was the more important personage of
the two; but I am not going to say any thing against
either of them, for the father was a very honest mason, and the son was a very nice young man.
Katy knocked at the door of this house, and inquired for Master Simon Sneed. She was'informed
that he had not yet finished his dinner; and she
decided to wait in the court till he made his appearance. Seating herself on the' door stone, she
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her coarse clothes, and could hardly believe that her
grandfather was a rich merchant, and lived in a fine
house. How nice it would be if she could only find
the old gentleman! He could not be cross to her;
he would give her all the money she could spend,
and make a great lady of her.
"Pooh! what a fool I am  to think of such a
thing!" exclaimed she, impatiently, as she rose from
the door stone. "I am a beggar, and what right
have I to think of being a fine lady, while my poor
sick mother has nothing to eat and drink? It is very
hard to be so poor, but I suppose it is all for the
best."
"Do you want me, Katy?" said a voice from the
door, which Katy recognized as that of Master Simon
Sneed.
"I want to see you very much," replied Katy.
" Wait a moment, and I will join you."
And in a moment Master Simon Sneed did join
her; but he is so much of a curiosity, and so much
of a character, that I must stop to tell my young
readers all about him.
Master Simon Sneed was about fifteen years old,
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and tall enough to have been two years older. He
was very slim, and held his head up very straight.
In 1843, the period of which I write, it was the
fashion for gentlemen to wear straps upon their
pantaloons; and accordingly Master Simon Sneed
wore straps on his pantaloons, though, it is true, the
boys in the streets used to laugh and hoot at him
for doing so; but they were very ill-mannered boys,
and could not appreciate the dignity of him they
insulted.
Master Sneed's garments were not of the finest
materials, and though he was a juvenile dandy, it
was evident that it required a great deal of personal
labor to make him su6h. Clearly those straps were
sewed on by himself, and clearly those cowhide shoes
had been thus elaborately polished by no other hands
than his own. In a word, the appearance of his
clothes, coarse as was their texture, and unfashionable as was their cut, indicated the most scrupulous
care. It was plain that he had a fondness for dress,
which his circumstances did not permit him to indulge to any very great extent.
Master Simon Sneed was a great man in his own




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    39
estimation; and, as he had read a great many exciting novels, and had a good command of language, he
talked and acted like a great man. He could hold
his own in conversation with older and wiser persons
than himself. He could astonish almost any person
of moderate pretensions by the largeness of his ideas;
and, of late years, his father had not pretended to
hold an argument with him, for Simon always overwhelmed him by the force and elegance of his rhetoric. He spoke familiarly of great men and great
events.
His business relations -for Master Sneed was a
business man - were not very complicated. According to his own reckoning, he was the chief person in
the employ of Messrs. Sands & Co., wholesale and
retail dry goods, Washington Street; one who had
rendered immense service to the firm, and one without whom the firm could not possibly get along a
single day; in short, a sort of Atlas, on whose broad
shoulders the vast world of the Messrs. Sands & Co.'s
affairs rested. But according to the reckoning of the
firm, and the general understanding of people, Master
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make fires, sweep out, and carry bundles, and, in consideration of.the fact that he boarded himself, to
receive two dollars and a half a week for his services. There was a vast difference between Master
Simon Sneed's estimate of Master Simon Sneed,
and the Messrs. Sands & Co.'s idea of Master Simon
Sneed.
But I beg my young friends not to let any thing I
have written create a prejudice against him, for he
was really a very kind-hearted young man, and under
certain circumstances would have gone a great way
to oblige a friend. He had always been exceedingly
well disposed towards Katy; perhaps it Was because
the simple-hearted little girl used to be so much astonished when he told her about his mercantile relations with the firm of Sands & Co.; how he managed
all their business for them after the store was closed
at night, and before the front door was unlocked in
the morning; how he went to the bank after immense sums of money; and how the firm would have
to give up business if he should die, or be obliged to
leave them. Katy believed that Master. Simon was
a great man, and she wondered how his long, slim




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    41
arms could accomplish so much labor, and how his
small head could hold such a heap of magnificent
ideas. But Master Simon, notwithstanding his elevated position in the firm, was condescending to her;
he had more than once done her a favor, and had always expressed a lively interest in her welfare.
Therefore she did not scruple to apply to him in the
present emergency.
"Well, Katy, in what manner can I serve you?"
inquired Simon, as he elevated his head, and stood
picking his teeth before her.
" I want you to do something for me very much
indeed."
" State your business, Katy."'CDr. Flynch has been to our house to-day, and
wants the rent; mother hasn't any money -
" And you wish me to lend you the amount?" continued Simon, when Katy hesitated to reveal the family trouble. "It is really unfortunate, Katy; it is
after bank hours now, and I don't see that I can accommodate you.".
" 0, I don't want to borrow the money."
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"I have got a watch here, which belonged to my
father; and I want to pawn it for the money to pay
-the rent."
"Well, it is rather out of our line of business to
lend money on collateral."
" I don't want you to lend it.  I want to take it
to the pawnbroker's. Mother says I am so young
and so small that they might cheat me; and I thought,
perhaps, may be, you'd be so kind as to go with me."
"Go with you!" exclaimed Master Simon, as he
eyed her coarse, ill-made garments.
"I thought you would," replied Katy, with a look
of disappointment.
"Well, Katy, I shall be very glad to assist you in
this matter, but-  "
Master Simon paused, and glanced again at the unfashionable dress of the suppliant. He was, as he
said, willing to aid her; but the idea of the principal
personage of the house of Sands & Co. walking
through the streets of the great city with such an illdressed young lady was absurd, and not to be tolerated. Master Sneed reflected. It is undoubtedly
true that " where there is a will there is a way."




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"Where do you wish to go? " demanded he.
"I don't know."
"Do you know where Brattle Street is?"
"I don't, but I can find it."
"Very well; important business' in another street
requires my personal attention for a moment; but I
will join you in Brattle Street in a quarter of an hour,
and attend you to a pawnbroker's."
"Thank you."
Master Sneed gave her directions so that she could
find the street, and at the end of the court, as she
turned one way, he turned the other.
Katy was first at the appointed place of meeting,
where Simon soon joined her; and directing her to
follow him, he led the way into another street, and
entered a shop.
" This young person wishes to raise some money
on a watch," said Simon, as he directed the attention
of the astonished broker to Katy, who was scarcely
tall enough to be seen over the high counter.
"Let me see it."
Katy handed up the watch, which the money lender
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soon discovered that the works of the watch were of
the best quality.
"Where did you get this?" asked the broker.
"My mother gave it to me; " and Katy told without reserve the pitiful story of want and destitution
which compelled Mrs. Redburn to part with the cherished memento of the, past.
"I will give you three dollars for the watch,"
added the broker.
" Come, come, sir,'? interposed Master Simon, with
a smile; "that is a little too bad. A gentleman of
your judgment and discretion has already assured
himself that the article is worth at least twenty."
The broker drew a long breath after this speech,
and seemed very much impressed by the style of the
remark. But Katy declared she did not want to sell
the watch, only to pawn it.
"Your story is not a very plausible one," said the
broker, "and there is some risk in taking it."
"I give you my personal assurance, on honor, that
her story is all true," added Simon.
The broker burst out into a loud laugh. He
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY BEDBURN.    45
not take the watch at any rate; so they departed to
find another place, and entered a shop close by.
"Where did you get this?" asked the broker,
sourly; and Katy repeated her story, and Simon
vouched for its truth.
" It is all a lie! " exclaimed the broker. "I will
put the watch into my safe, and hand it over to the
police."
"This is a most extraordinary proceeding," protested Master Simon.
" Get out of the shop, both of you, or I will hand
you over to the police!  You stole the watch, and
have the audacity to bring it into the shop of an
honest man. I don't buy stolen goods."
Katy began to cry,'as the last hope of redemption
from the fangs of Dr. Flynch fled. Even Master
Simon Sneed was alarmed at the idea of being handed
over to the police; but his sense of dignity compelled
him to enter his earnest protest against the proceeding of the broker, and even to threaten him with the
terrors of the law. The money lender repeated his
menace, and even went to the door, for the apparent
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" Come, Katy, let us go; but I assure you I will
represent this outrage to my friend the mayor, in
such a manner that entire justice shall be done you,"
whispered Simon. " I cannot remain any longer
away from my business, or I would recover the watch
at once."
"0, dear! my poor mother!" sobbed Kaly.
"Don't cry, my child; leave it all to me, and run
home as fast as you can. You shall have the watch
again, for I will call in the whole police force of Boston to your aid;" and Master Simon ran away to
attend to the affairs of Sands & Co., which Katy
innocently concluded must be suffering by this time
from his absence.
Poor Katy! with a heavy heart she wandered
home to tell her mother of this new misfortune.




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBUIRN.    47
CHAPTER IV.
KATY MATURES A MAGNIFICENT SCHEME.
"I surPosE it is all for the best, mother," said
Katy, when she had told her sad story of disappointment. " I can't get those words out of my head,
since you have told me about my father. I feel just
as though every thing would come out right, if it
does go very bad just now."
"I am glad you feel so, Katy," added Mrs. Redburn. "It will make you much better contented
with your lot. I have suffered so much that I cannot help repining a little, though I feel that my destiny and yours is in the hands of the wise Father,
who bringeth good out of evil."
Katy had not yet reached that spirit of meek submission to the will of Heaven which looks upward
in the hour of trial, not doubting that the all-wise
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If she believed that misfortunes were all for the best,
it was only an impulse derived from the story of her
father; a kind of philosophy which was very convenient for the evil day, because it permitted the
sufferer to lie down and take things easily. It was
not a filial trust in the wisdom and mercy of the
heavenly Father that sustained her as the clouds
grew thicker and blacker around her; it was only a
cold indifference, a feeling of the head rather than
the heart.
But Mrs. Redburn had been reading the New Tess
tament during Katy's absence, and a better and
purerfspirit pervaded her soul than when the weight
of the blow first struck so heavily upon her. She
was well educated, and capable of reasoning in a just
manner over her misfortunes; and those words on
the watch seemed to convey a new meaning to her, as
she considered them in the light of Christian revelation. They were not the basis of a cold philosophy;
they assured her of the paternal care of God, The
thought strengthened and revived her, and when
Katy appeared to announce a new trial, she received
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    49
than ever before to leave her destiny in the hands of
Heaven. For an hour she conversed with Katy on
this subject, and succeeded in giving her some new
views in relation to the meaning of the words she had
so often repeated that afternoon.
The poor girl felt as she had never felt before.
Upon her devolved the responsibility of providing for
her mother. She had no other friend, and that day
seemed to open a new era in her existence. She felt
strong for the work before her, and resolved to lose
not a single day in putting her resolution into operation. The teachings of her mother, breathing a
spirit of piety and resignation, were grateful to her
heart, and added new strength to her arm.
There was still food enough in the house for
Katy's supper, for her mother could not eat, though
she drank a cup of tea. The morning sun would
shine upon them again, bringing another day of want
and wretchedness; but the poor girl banished her
fears, trusting for the morrow to Him who feedeth
the hungry raven, and tempereth the wind to the
shorn lamb.
She laid her head upon her pillow that night, not
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to sleep for many a weary hour, but to think of the
future;.not of its sorrows and treasured ills, but of
the golden opportunities it would afford her to do
something for her sick mother. At one o'clock the
next day Dr. Flynch would come for the rent again,
and her mother could not pay him. She felt assured
he was cold and cruel enough to execute his wicked
threat to turn them out of the house, though her
mother had not been off her bed for many weeks.
What could be done?  They could not pay the rent;
that was impossible; and she regarded it as just as
impossible to melt the heart of Dr. Flynch. But
long before she went to sleep she had decided what
to do.
Worn out with fatigue and anxiety, she did not
wake till a late hour; and her mother, who had kept
a weary vigil all night, was glad to see her sleep so
well, and did not arouse her. She was refreshed by
her deep slumbers, and got up feeling like a \new
creature. She had scarcely made a fire and put on
the tea-kettle, before a knock at the door startled her.
Who could wish to see them in their poverty and
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    51
some new grief upon them? She scarcely had the
courage to open the door; but when she did so, she
saw the smiling face of Tommy Howard.
" Good morning, Katy," said he, as he handed her
a little basket he had brought. "Mother sent this
over, and wants to know how Mrs. Redburn does
to-day."
"She is about the same. What is in this basket,
Tommy?"
" 0, you know; " and he turned to run away.
"Stop a minute, Tommy," called Katy. "I want
to speak to you."
"cVell, what is it?"
" You haven't told any body about it - have you?"
"About what?"
" What I told you yesterday," replied Katy, hanging her head with shame.
"What do you mean? "
" That we had nothing to eat; " and Katy blushed
as though it was a crime to be hungry and have
nothing to eat.
"Not a soul —catch me! that is, I hain't told
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"I am sorry you did, even her. My mother is
very proud, if she is poor; but she wasn't always so
poor as she is now, for she is the daughter of a rich
merchant."
"You don't say so."
"Yes, I do, Tommy; so please don't say a word
about it to any body but your mother, and ask her
not to mention it."
"Not a word, Katy; mother won't say a word
either."
"And some time I'll tell you all about it. Thank
you for what's in the basket, Tommy."
Without waiting for any thing more, the noble,
generous boy leaped down the stairs and passed out
at the front door.
"What have you got there, Katy?" asked Mrs.
Redburn, as she entered the room with the basket in
her hand.
"Something Mrs. Howard sent us," she replied,
as she opened the basket, and took out a plate of
butter and half a dozen hot biscuit, which she carried
to the bedside for her mother's inspection.
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poor woman, a flush gathering on her pale cheek.
"Have you told the neighbors that we have nothing
to eat?"
" I couldn't help telling Tommy when I asked for
the flounders yesterday; he told his mother, but no
one else knows it."
" I had rather starve than beg, Katy; but I cannot
compel you to do so."
" I will not beg."
" Then let us send those cakes back."
"'No, mother; we must not be so proud as that.
I think that God sent us this food, through Mrs.
Howard, and it would be wicked to reject his
bounty."
"Do as you please, Katy."'- Some time we shall be able to pay her; and that
will make it all right."
Mrs. Redburn could not taste the biscuit, but Katy
ate heartily. Her pride was not inflated by the remembrance of brighter days. All she had was inherited from her mother.
After breakfast she put on her bonnet and left the
house, assuring her mother she should be back by
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54           POOR AND PROUD, OR
twelve o'clock. She would not tell her where she
was going, but evaded her questions, and got away
as soon as she could.
As she passed down Washington Street, she stopped
before the store of Sands & Co., for she wanted to
see Master Simon Sneed. She did not like to enter
the store; so she waited on the sidewalk for half an
hour, hoping he would come out. As he did not
appear, her impatience would not permit her to lose
any more time, and she timidly opened the door, and
inquired of the first salesman she saw if Mister Sneed
was in.
"Mister Sneed!" laughed the clerk. "Here, Simon, is one of your friends. Wait upon her."
Simon, with a flushed cheek, came to the door.
He was horrified at the' insinuation of the salesman,
and wished Katy had been on the other side of the
ocean before she had come there to scandalize him by
claiming his acquaintance.
"What do you want now?" he demanded, rather
rudely. "Is it not enough that I am willing to help
you, without your coming here to bring me into contempt with my associates?"




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"I didn't think there was any harm in it. I
waited outside for half an hour, and you didn't come
out."
"I can't leave the affairs of this firm to attend to
every little - " and Master Simon's naturally good
heart prevented him from uttering the unkind words
that had been on his tongue. "I suppose you come
to know about the watch. I haven't had time to
call upon the mayor yet, but I will do so at dinner
time."
"I only wanted to ask you if you know where
Mrs. Gordon lives," replied Katy, very sad at the
thought of the mischief she had done.
" She lives in Temple Street, over back of the State
House. What do you want of her?"
"I want to see her. Do you suppose you can get
that watch back?"
"I'm certain I can. When my friend the mayor
hears my story, you may depend upon it he will get
the watch, or upset all the pawnbrokers' shops in
the city."
"Are you acquainted with the mayor?" asked
Katy, timidly, for, since the adventure of the previous




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day, she had entertained some slight doubts in regard to the transcendent abilities of Master Simon
Sneed.
" Certainly I am. It was only last week that I had
a long and extremely interesting conversation with
his honor on the sidewalk here before the store."
Katy was satisfied, though Simon did not offer to
introduce her to his distinguished friend. How could,
she help being satisfied in the face of such astounding evidence?  And Simon's declaration was true,
for whatever faults he had, he never made up a story
out of whole cloth. It was undeniably true that he
had conversed with the mayor for ten full minutes,
at the time and place represented. Simon had been
sent out to hold his honor's horse, while a lady with
himn did some shopping; but his honor preferred to
hold his own horse, and amused himself for the time'in listening to the big talk of the nice young man.
After receiving more explicit directions in regard
to the residence of Mrs. Gordon, Katy took her leave
of Simon. Next door to Sands & Co.'s was the store
of a' celebrated confectioner. In the window, with
sundry sugar temples, cob houses of braided candy,




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and stacks, of cake, was a great heap of molasses
candy; and as Katy paused for an instant to gaze at
the profusion of sweet things, a great thought struck
through her brain.
"Mother used to make molasses candy for me,
and I know just how it is done," said she to herself. "What is the reason I can't make candy and
sell it? 
She walked on towards School Street, up which
she had been directed to turn, full of. this idea.  She
would become a little candy merchant.  She felt
sure she could find purchasers enough, if her merchandise only looked clean and good.  It was a
great deal better than begging, and she thought her
mother would consent to her making and selling the
candy. What a glorious idea! If she could only
make money enough to support her mother and herself, how happy she should be!
Full of enthusiasm at the idea of accomplishing
such a vast project, she scarcely heeded the crowds
of people that thronged the street and rudely jostled her. If she saw them  at all, it was only to
regard them as so many purchasers of molasses




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candy.  With her brain almost reeling with the
immensity and magnificence of her scheme, she
reached Temple Street. After a little search, she
found the number of Mrs. Gordon's residence on a
splendid house, whose grandness quite abashed her.
But her courage revived as she thought of the purpose that had brought her there, and she boldly
rang the bell. The door was opened by a servant
man in a white jacket, of whom  she inquired if
Mrs. Gordon was at home.
s, Mrs. Gordon is at home, but we don't trouble
her at the call of a beggar," replied the well-fed
servant, as he glanced at the homely apparel of
Katy.
"I am not a beggar," she replied, with' spirit, her
cheek reddening with indignation at the charge.
"You can't see her; so go about your business."
"Who is it, Michael?" said a gentle voice
within.
"Only a beggar, Miss Grace; she wants to see
Mrs. Gordon," replied the man;  and then a beautiful
young lady came to look at her.
"I am not a beggar, ma'am; indeed I am not. I




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURl,.   59
want to see Mrs. Gordon very much. Please to let
me speak to her."
The sweet, pleading tones of the child produced
their impression on the beautiful lady, and she bade
her come in. Katy entered, and Michael told her to
stand in the entry while Miss Grace went up stairs
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CHAPTER V.
XATY VISITS MRS. GORDON, AND GETS RID OF
DR. FLYNC1II.
KATY gazed with wonder and admiration at the
rich furniture of the house, and thought that perhaps
her grandfather lived in as good style as Mrs. Gordon, and that she might some day go to Liverpool
and be an inmate of just such a palace. The door
of the sitting room was open, and she had an opportunity to look at all the fine things it contained.
She had never seen any thing so luxurious before,
and I must say that she regretted the poverty of
her lot, which deprived her mother and herself of
them.
All round the room hung pictures in costly frames.
Some of them were portraits; and one which hung
over the mantel-piece, directly before her, soon attracted her attention, and made her forget the soft




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBTURN.    61
divans, the beautiful carpet, and the rich draperies
of the windows. It was the portrait of a lady, and
her expression was very like that of her mother - so
like that she could almost believe the picture had
been painted for her mother. Yet that could not be,
for the lady was young, and plump, and rosy, and
wore rich laces, and a costly dress.  She seemed to
look down upon her from the golden frame with a
smile of satisfaction.  There was something roguish
in her eye, as though she was on the point of bursting
into a laugh at some mischief she had perpetrated.
O, no! that could not be her mother; she had never
seen her look like that. But there was something
that seemed very much like her; and the more she
looked at it, the more the picture fascinated her.
She tried to look at something else, but the lady
appeared to have fixed her gaze upon her, and;
which ever way she turned, those laughing eyes followed her, and brought back her attention to the
canvas again.
In vain she attempted to fasten her mind upon
some of the other portraits. There was an elderly
gentleman, with a full red face; but the jealous lady
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62           POOR AND PROUD, OR
would not let her look at him. She turned round,
and looked out the windows at the side of the door;
but the spell of the lady was upon her, and she could
not resist the charm. The more she studied the portrait, the more convinced she became that it looked
like her mother, though there was something about
it which was as unlike her as any thing could be.' "What makes you keep looking at me?" said
Katy to herself, or rather to the lady on the canvas.
"' You needn't watch me so closely; I shall not steal
any thing."
The lady, however, insisted on watching her, and
kept her roguish glance fixed upon her with a steadiness that began to make her feel nervous and uneasy; and she was greatly relieved when she heard
footsteps on the stairs.
"Mrs. Gordon will be down in a moment," said
Miss Grace, in kind tones. "Won't you come into
this room and sit down?"
Katy thanked her, and Grace led her to a small
chair directly under the mischievous-looking lady in
the frame; and she felt a kind of satisfaction in being
placed out of her sight. But it seemed, even then,




THE FORTUNES 01? KATY REDBURN.    63
as she cast a furtive glance upward, that those
roguish eyes were trying to peer over the picture
frame, and get a look at her.
" Well, little girl, what do you wish with me?"
said Mrs. Gordon, a benevolent-looking lady, apparently of more than forty years of age, who now entered the room.
The expression of her countenance was very pleasant, and though there were a few wrinkles on her
brow, and she wore a lace cap, Katy came to the conclusion that the portrait had been taken for her. She
wondered if such a dignified lady could ever have
been so roguish as the picture indicated.
"Please, ma'am," stammered she, rising from her
chair, "I come to see you about the house we
live in."
"What is your name, child?"
"Katy Redburn, ma'am."
"In what house do you live?"
"In one of yours in Colvin Court. Mother is a
poor woman, and has been sick so much this sum.
mer that she can't pay the rent."
"I am very sorry for you, my child, but I refer




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you to my agent, Dr. Flynch. I do not like to meddle with these things, as I have given him the whole
care of my houses. You will find him a very good
man, and one who will be willing to consider your
case. He will extend to you all the lenity your case
requires."
"We have told Dr. Flynch all about it, ma'am;
and he says if the rent is not paid by one o'clock today, he shall turn us out of the house."
"Indeed!" exclaimed Mrs. Gordon; and Grace
actually jumped out of her chair with astonishment
and indignation.
"Yes, ma'am; that's just what he said," added
Katy, satisfied with the impression she had produced.
"Is your mother ill now? " asked Mrs. Gordon.
"Yes, ma'am; she has not been off her bed for
twelve weeks."
" What does Dr. Flynch say, my child?"
"He says my mother deceived him; that she told
him a falsehood; and that she had money, when she
didn't have a cent."
"It is too bad, mother!" exclaimed Grace.
"Hush, Grace; probably Dr. Flynch knows best,




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    65
for he certainly would not turn a poor sick woman
out of doors because she did not pay the rent. There
may be, as he says, some deception about it, which
he can penetrate and we cannot."
"There is no deception about it, ma'am," pleaded
Katy, much disturbed by this sudden damper upon
her hopes. "She has not got a single cent. She
wouldn't tell a lie, and I wouldn't either."
There was something in the eloquence and earnestness of the child that deeply impressed the mind of
the lady, and she could hardly resist the conclusion
that her agent had, in this instance, made a mistake.
But she had great confidence in Dr. Flynch, and she
was very unwilling to believe that he could be so
harsh and cruel as the little girl represented. She
had heard of the tricks of the vicious poor, and while
she was disposed to be very tender of a needy tenant,
she must be just to her agent.'It is now half past ten," continued Mrs. Gordon.
"You shall remain here, my child, and I will send
Michael down to Colvin Court to inquire into the
situation of your mother. He must be impartial, for
he knows nothing about the case."
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"Thank you, ma'am," said Katy, with a promptness which assured Grace, if not her mother, that the
little girl was honest.
Mrs. Gordon rang the bell, and when Michael
answered the summons, she attended him to the
street door, where she instructed him to call upon
Mrs. Redburn, and also to inquire of the grocer at
the corner, and of her neighbors, what sort of a person she was. The lady returned to the sitting room
when he had gone, and asked Katy a great many
questions about herself and her mother, and thus
nearly an hour was consumed; at the end of which
time Michael returned. Katy had answered all the
lady's questions so fairly, though without betraying
her family history, which her mother had cautioned
her to keep to herself, that she was prepared to receive
a favorable report from her man.
"Well, Michael, did you find the woman at
home?" asked Mrs. Gordon, as the man presented
himself.
" Indeed, I did, marm."
"  That was she doing?"
"She was fast in bed, and told me she hadn't
been out of it for twelve weeks come Saturday."




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" What does the grocer say?"
"He says she is a very good woman, but poor and
proud. She always paid him every cent she owed
him, and he'd trust her for half he has in his
shop."
"That will do, Michael; you may go; " and the
man retired with a respectful bow.
Katy's face wore a smile of triumph, as Michael
was dismissed. Her mother's truthfulness had been
vindicated, and it was the proudest moment she had
known for many a day.
" How long has your mother lived in my house?"
asked Mrs. Gordon.
"About three years, ma'am; and she always paid
her rent till this month," replied Katy.
"If she had' not, Dr. Flynch would have turned
her into the street," added Grace; and it was evident
the beautiful young lady had no special regard for.
that worthy gentleman.
"We have tried hard enough to pay the rent this
month,'" continued Katy; and she proceeded to tell
the story of the silver watch, that had belonged to
her father,




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"This is dreadful, mother; let us do something
about' it," said Grace. " What a wretch the broker
must have been! "
" We will endeavor to get the watch back for-her,"
replied Mrs. Gordon, as she seated herself at a table
and wrote a few lines on a piece of paper. "Here,
my child, is a receipt for your month's rent. WVhen
Dr. Flynch comes for the money, you show him this,
and he will be satisfied; " and she handed her the
receipt.
Katy took it, and thanked the good lady, assuring
her that her mother would certainly pay the money as
soon as she got well.
"' My mother is poor and proud, just as the grocer
said, and she don't ask any one to give her any thing.
I am going to earn some money myself, and I hope
I shall be able to pay the next month's rent," added
Katy, as she moved towards the door.
" But the watch, mother?" interposed Grace.
" If the little girl will come here this afternoon or
to-morrow morning, we will take her to the mayor,
who, will have the case attended to."
"I will come any time, ma'am."




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"The mayor is my friend, and I will call at his
house with you this afternoon at three o'clock."
Katy could not but think the mayor had a great
many friends, for there was Master Simon Sneed, and
Mrs. Gordon, and she knew not -how many more.
She thanked the lady very warmly for her kindness,
and promising to come at the time stated, she took
her leave. She was followed to. the door by Grace,
who detained her there.
" Katy, I am sure you are a very good little girl,
and here is a dollar for you. It will buy something
good for your mother."
"I thank you very much, Miss Gordon. I am
poor, but proud, like my mother," replied she, as a
flush of shame mantled her cheek.
"What a foolish little girl!"  laughed Grace.
"Take it; you will oblige me very much by tak-'ing it."
"No, ma'am, I can't; my mother wouldn't own
me if I should take money as a gift."
"But you must take it, Katy; I shall be angry if
you don't."
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beaming with pity and love; and she could hardly
resist the temptation to oblige her by accepting the
gift; but since she had heard the story of her mother's life, she understood why she was so much prouder
than other poor people; and as she thought of her
grandfather in his fine house in the great city of Liverpool, she felt a little of the same spirit —she too
was poor and proud. Besides, as Grace jingled the
two half dollars together, there was a harmony in the
sound that suggested a great heap of good things for
her mother. And there was another powerful consideration that weighed with great force upon her mind.
One of those half dollars would be a sufficient capital upon which to commence her candy speculation.
It would buy ever so much molasses of the very best
quality. As she thought of this, she was disposed, at
least, to compromise with Miss Grace.
"I cannot accept the money'as a gift, but you may
lend it to me, if you please," said Katy, after she had
reflected a moment.
"Just as you like," laughed Grace; "but I shall
not feel bad if you never pay me."
"I'shall certainly pay it again," persisted the em



THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    71
bryc candy merchant. "I would not take it if I
thought I could not."
"Very well; but you must know I think you are
a very singular little girl."' I am poor and proud; that's all."
Katy took the loan, and with her fancy fired with
brilliant expectations in regard to the candy operation, ran home to her mother as fast as her feet would
carry her. Mrs. Redburn was much- displeased with
her at first for what she had done. Her pride revolted at the thought of begging a favor; but Katy
explained the matter so well that she was satisfied,
though nothing was said about the loan she had
obtained.
Punctually at the appointed hour came Dr. Flynch
for the rent.
"Have you got the money? " he demanded iri his
usual bland tones, though Katy thought she could
see a wicked purpose in his little gray eye.
"No, sir; but
"That's all I desire to know, Mrs. Redburn,"
interrupted the agent.  "You must leave the
house."




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"But, sir, I have something that will do as well
as the money," added the sick woman.
"Have you, indeed? " sneered Dr. Flynch. "I
think not."
"Will you read that, sir?" said Katy, handing
him Mrs. Gordon's receipt.
The agent took the paper, and as he read, the
wonted serenity of his brow was displaced by a dark
scowl. His threats had been disregarded, and he
had been reported to his employer.
"So you have been fawning and cringing upon
Mrs. Gordon," growled he.  "Probably you have
told her more lies than you dared tell me."
", I told her nothing but the truth, and she sent
her man down here to find out all about us," said
Katy, smartly.
"Very well; this paper will only delay the matter for a few days; when I have exposed you to her,
she will acquiesce in my views;" and Dr. Flynch
threw down the receipt and left the house.
"We are well rid of him, at any rate," said
Katy.  "Now I will get you some dinner, for
I must be at Mrs. Gordon's at three o'clock;




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    73
and I want to tell you about my plan too,
mother."
The active little girl made a cup of tea for her
mother, and the dinner was soon despatched.
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74         PrOOR AND PROUD, OR
CHAPTER VI.
EATY PREPARES A STOCK OF MERCtHANDISE.
KATY had not time then to tell her mother about
the candy speculation she had in view, and she was
obliged to wait till her return from Temple Street.
Promptly at the hour, she presented herself at Mrs.
Gordon's, and they went to the house of the mayor;
but that distinguished gentleman was not at home,
and the lady promised to go again with her the
next day.
As she walked home, she thought of what she
should say to her mother in favor of the candy project, for she felt sure her mother's pride would throw
many obstacles in her path. The best argument she
could think of was, that the business would be an
honest calling, and though she was too proud to beg,
she was not too proud to work, or to take a very
humble position among the people around her. She




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    75
did not look upon the act of selling candy to the
passers-by in the streets as degrading in itself, and
therein she differed very widely from her mother,
who had been brought up in ease and affluence. Before she got home she had made up her mind what
she should say, and how she should defend her plan
from the assaults of pride.
"Now, mother, you shall hear my plan," she
continued, after she had announced the ill success
of her visit to the mayor's house. "I am going
into business, and I expect to make a great deal of
money."
"Are you, indeed?" replied Mrs. Redburn, smiling at the enthusiasm of her daughter.
" I am; and you must not be angry with me, or
object very much to my plan."
"Well, what is your plan?"
"I am going to sell candy," said Katy, pausing to
notice the effect of this startling declaration. "You
know what nice molasses candy you used to make for
me. Mrs. Sneed and Mrs. Colvin said a great many
times that it was a good deal better than they could
buy at the shops."




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" But, child, I am not able to make candy now. I
cannot get off my bed."
"I will make it; you shall lay there and tell me
how. I am sure I can make it."
"It is very. hard work to pull it."
"I won't mind that."
"Suppose you can make it, how will you sell it?"
asked Mrs. Redburn, casting an anxious glance at the
enthusiastic little girl.
"0, I shall take a box, and offer it to the folks
that pass along the streets."
"Are you crazy, Katy?" exclaimed the mother,
raising her head on the bed. "Do you think I could
permit you to do such a thing?"
"WVhy not, mother?"
" What a life for a child to lead? Do you think
I could let you wander about the streets exposed to
the insults and rude jests of the vicious and thoughtless? You do not understand what you propose."
" I think I do, mother. I don't see any harm in
belling candy to those who are willing to buy."
" Perhaps there is no harm in the mere act of seiling candy; but what a life for you to lead! It makes
me shudder to think of it."




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.'77
"It is your pride, mother."
"I am thankful I have some pride left, Katy."."But, mother, we can't be poor and proud.  We
aaven't got any money to be proud with."
"I am proud, I know; I wish I could banish it,"
replied Mrs. Redburn, with a deep sigh.
"Let me try the plan, mother, and if I can't get
along with it, I will give it up."
"It will subject you to a great many trials and
temptations."
"I can manage them, mother."
"Can you submit to the insults of evil-minded
persons?"
"Yes, mother; no decent person would insult me,
and I don't care for others. I can pity them, and
run away from them. I am not afraid of any thing.
Do let me try."
Mrs. Redburn saw that Katy was too earnest to be
thwarted; that, impelled by a noble purpose, she had
set her heart upon making the attempt, and she did
not like to disappoint her. It is true, she keenly felt
Ihe degradation of such a life, and even feared that
Katy might be led astray while pursuing such an




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occupation; but she gave a reluctant consent, trusting
that one or two experiments would disgust her with
the business.
Katy clapped her hands with joy as her mother's
scruples gave way, and she found herself at liberty
to. carry her plan into execution. It seemed to her
as though she had crossed the threshold of fortune,
and had actually entered the great temple. She had
an opportunity to accomplish a great work, and her
enthusiasm would not permit her to doubt in regard
to her final success.
"I must begin now, mother, and make all the
candy this afternoon, so that I can commence selling
it early to-morrow morning. I will go to the grocery
now and get the molasses."
"Poor child; you have' nothing to get it with.
We have no money; you did not think of that."
" Yes, I did, and I have the money to buy the
molasses. I borrowed it," replied Katy, evincing
some confusion.
"You borrowed it? Pray who would lend you
money?"
"Miss Grace Gordon."




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    79
" Did you borrow it, Katy?" asked Mrs. Redburn, casting a reproachful glance at her.
"Yes, mother, I did. I would not accept money
now,'after what you have said to me. Miss Grace
wanted to give it to me; but I told her I could not
take it. She laughed at me, and I said I was poor
and proud. She would make me take it, and said so
much, that, at last, I told her if she would lend it to
me, I would take it."
" It was the same as a gift,". said Mrs. Redburn,
blushing with shame at the thought of accepting
alms.
"No, it wasn't; she may think it was, but I mean
to pay her, and I shall pay her; I know I shall."
"If you can," sighed the proud mother.
"I shall be able to pay her soon, for I mean to sell
lots of candy."
"You may be disappointed."
"No; I am sure I shall sell a good deal; I mean
to make people buy. I shall talk up smart to them,
just as the shopkeepers do; I am going to tell them
what good candy it is, and that their little sons and
daughters will like it very much."




80           POOR AND PROUD, OR
"You are beside yourself, Katy. It pains me to
hear you talk so. It is sad to think a child of mine
should relish such an employment as that in which
you are' going to engage."
"Do you remember the book my Sunday-school
teacher gave me last New Year's day, mother?  It
was all about false pride; I want you to read it,
mother. We can't afford to be so proud."
"Go and get your molasses, Katy," replied Mrs.
Redburn, who could not but acknowledge the truth
of her daughter's remarks.
She had read the book alluded to, and was not
willing to confront the arguments it had put in the
mouth of her child. She was conscious that her
pride, which made a humble occupation repulsive to
her, was a false pride. If it could have been carried
on in private, it would not have seemed so galling.
For years she had been a recluse from society, mingling only with her humble neighbors, and with them
no more than her circumstances required. She had
labored in solitude, and shunned observation as much
as possible, by carrying her work back and forth in
the evening. Years of hard toil had not familiarized




TIHE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    81
her with the circumstances of her lot.  She tried to
be humble and submissive, but the memory of her
early days could not be driven away.
Katy returned in a few minutes with the jug of
molasses. She bustled round and made up a good
fire, got the kettle on, and every thing in readiness
for the work. Her mother gave her directions how
to proceed; but Katy could impart to her none of
her own enthusiasm.
When the molasses had been cooked enough, she
was ready to commence the pulling, which was the
most difficult part in the manufacture of her merchandise. Then she found that her trials had indeed
commenced. At first the sticky mass, in spite of the
butter and the flour with which she had plentifully
daubed her hands, was as obstinate as a mule. It
would not work one way or another; now it melted
down, and stucl to her fingers, and then it became as
solid as a rock. She fretted some at these crosses,
and as her spirits sank, her mother's rose, for she
thought Katy's resolution would not hold out long
enough for her to complete the experiment. But
she underrated the energy of the devoted girl, who,




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in the face of every discouragement, stuck to the
candy with as much zeal as the candy stuck to her.
As is almost always the case with those who persevere to the end, Katy soon won a partial triumph,
which gladdened her heart, and gave her courage to
continue her trying labors.  She had worked a portion of the mas's into candy - clear, light-colored, inviting candy.  Columbus felt no prouder of his
achievement when he had crossed the Atlantic, or,
Napoleon when he had passed the Alps. She danced
for joy as'she gazed upon the clear, straight sticks of
candy, as they were arranged in the pan. It was a
great conquest for her; but at what a sacrifice it had
been won! Her little hands, unused to such hard
work, were blistered in a dozen places, and smarted
as though they had been scalded with boiling water.
She showed them to her mother, who begged her not
to do any more; but she had too much enthusiasm to
be deterred by the smart of her wounds, and resolutely resumed her labor.
She had scarcely commenced upon the second mass
before she was interrupted by the entrance of Mrs.
Howard, her friend Tommy's -mother.




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"Why, what are you doing, child?" asked the
good woman. "I thought you were all sick, and
here you are making candy, as merry as on a feast
day."
"I am making it to sell, Mrs. Howard," replied
Katy, proudly.
"Bless me! but you're a queer child! Do you
think folks will buy it of you? "
"I know they will;" and Katy detailed her plan to
the interested neighbor, declaring she was sure she
could support her mother and herself by making and
selling candy.  "But it is very hard work," -she
added; " see how I've blistered my hands."
"Poor child!:it's enough to kill you! " exclaimed
Mrs. Howard, as she glanced at the great blisters on
Katy's hands.
"I have been trying to make her give up the idea,
but she has more courage' than I ever gave her credit
for," remarked Mrs. Redburn.
"It's a shame for you to hurt your hands in this
manner; but I dare say they will soon get hard, like
mine, with the labor," replied Mrs. Howard, as ihe
threw offher hood and rolled up her sleeves. " Here,
child, let me help you."




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"You are very kind, ma'am; and I hope I shall
be able to do something for you some time."
"Never you mind that; you are a nice girl, and
it does my heart good to see you trying to help your
mother," added the kind woman, as she detached
a large mass of candy, and commenced pulling it
with a vigor that astonished the weak-handed little
girl. "You're a jewel and a blessing, and you're
worth a dozen of the fine ladies that are too proud to
lift a finger to keep their bodies from starving. Ah,
it's a dreadful misfortune to be proud."
"To-be poor and proud," said Mrs. Redburn.
"You are right, ma'am; and I am glad to see you
have none of it here; for some of your neighbors used
to say you were too proud to speak to them."
Mrs. Redburn made no reply, and permitted her
kind neighbor, whose tongue scarcely ceased to swing
for a moment, to continue her remarks without opposition. She and Katy worked with all their might
till the candy was ready for market, and when the
poor invalid poured out her thanks, she ran off and
left them.
The exultation with which Katy regarded her




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    85
plentiful stock of merchandise almost caused her to
forget her smarting hands; and when she could no
longer keep her eyes open, she went to sleep to dream
of great operations in molasses candy on'change
next day.
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86           POOR AND PROUD, OR
CHAPTER  VII.
KATY MAKES A LARGE SALE,.
KATY rose the next morning bright and early,
and her heart was full of hope. She felt that she
had a great work to perform, and she was going
forth to do it, resolved that no obstacle should turn
her back. Her mother had told her that she would
be laughed at, and made fun of; that thoughtless
people would look down upon her with contempt,
and that wicked ones would insult her.  She was,
therefore, prepared for all these trials, but she had
braced herself up to meet them with courage and
fortitude.
Her mother was sick, and they were actually in a
suffering condition. What right had she to be proud
in her poverty? She felt able to support her mother,
and she could find no excuse, if she wished to do so,
for not supporting her. It was her duty, therefore,




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    87
to sell candy, if she could get money by it; and this
consideration strengthened her heart.
Katy had been to the public school and to the
Sunday school until her mother was taken sick; and
though she was only eleven years old, she had a very
good idea of her moral and religious duties. "Honor
thy father and thy mother," the commandment says;
and she could think of no better way to obey the
divine precept than to support her mother when there
was no one else upon whom she could rely. Little
by little their earthly possessions had passed away.
Mrs. Redburn hadnever learned how  to save
money; and when the day of adversity came, her
funds were soon exhausted.'She had no friends to
whom she dared reveal her poverty, and when want
came to the door, she was too proud to beg. Hoping for better days, she had sold most of her best
dresses, and those of Katy. The small sums raised
by these sacrifices were soon used up; and when
the daughter:could no longer make a decent appearance, she was required to show herself much
more than ever before.  Katy did not repine at
this, though her mother did, for their pride, as my




88            POOR AND PROUD, OR
young friends have discovered, was of very different
kinds.
Katy did wish she had a little better dress, and a
little better bonnet for her first attempt in the mercantile calling; but there was no help for it. She
had mended her clothes as well as she could, and as
they were clean, she was pretty well satisfied with
her personal appearance. Besides, people would not
be half so apt to buy her candy if she were well
dressed, as if she were rather plainly clothed.  In
short, it was all for the best.
After breakfast she prepared herself for the duties
of the day. Her heart beat violently with anxiety
and expectation, and while she was placing the candy
on the tray, which she had previously covered with
white paper, to render her wares. the more inviting,
her mother gave her a long lecture on the trials and
difficulties in her path, and the proper way to encounter them.
"Now, my dear child," said Mrs. Redburn, in
conclusion, "if any evil person insults you, do not
resent it, but run away as fast as you can."
"Shan't I say any thing, mother?"




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   -89
"Not a word."
"But if some naughty boy or girl, no bigger than
I am myself, should be saucy to me, I thinkl I can
give them as good as they send."
" Don't do it, Katy."
"They have no business to insult me."
"That is very true; but when you use bad or
violent language to them, you go down to their
level."
"But if they begin it?"
"No matter, Katy; if they are unkind and wicked,
it is no reason that you should be unkind and wicked. If you leave them without resenting their insults, the chances are that they will be ashamed of
themselves before you get out of sight. You need
not be low and vile because others are."
"I guess you are right, mother."
"You know what the Bible says:' If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drifik:
for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his
head.'"
"I won't say a word, mother, wjhatever they say
to me. I'll be as meek as Moses."
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90           POOR AND PROUD, OR
"I hope you will not be gone long," added Mrs.
Redburn.
" I have thirty sticks of candy here, I don't think
it will take me long to sell the whole of them. I
shall be back by dinner time whether I sell them
or not, for you know I must go to Mrs. Gordon
again to-day.  Now, good by, mother; and don't
you worry about me, for I will do every thing just
as though you were looking at me."
Katy closed the door behind her, and did not see
the great tears that slid down her mother's pale
cheek as she departed.  It was well she did not,
for it would have made her heart very sad to know
all the sorrow and anxiety that distressed her mother
as she saw her going out into the crowded streets of
a great city, to expose herself to a thousand temptations. She wept long and bitterly in the solitude of
her chamber; and perhaps her wounded pride caused
many of her tears to flow.  But better thoughts
came at last, and she took up. the Bible which lay
on the bed, and read a few passages. Then she
prayed to God that he would be with Katy in the
midst of the crowd, and guide her safely through the




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perils and temptations that would assail her. She
tried to banish her foolish pride; when she considered her circumstances, she could almost believe it
was a wicked pride; but when she endeavored to be
reconciled to her lot, the thought of her father's fine
house, and the servants that used to wait upon her,
came up, and the struggle in her heart was very
severe. In spite of all she had said to Katy about
the disgrace of selling candy in the streets, she could
not but be thankful that the poor girl had none of
her foolish pride. She read in the New Testament
about the lowly life which Jesus and the apostles
led, and- then asked herself what right she had to
be proud. And thus she struggled through the long
hours she remained alone-trying to be humble,
trying to be good and true. Those who labor and
struggle as hard as she did are always the better for
it, even though they do not achieve a perfect triumph over the passions that torment them.
Katy blushed when she met the keeper of the
grocery at the corner of the court, for in spite of
all her fine talk about false-pride, she had not entirely banished it from  her heart.  Some queer




92          POOR AND PROUD, OR
ideas came into her head as she thought what she
was doing. What would her grandfather, the rich
Liverpool merchant, say, should he meet her then?
Of course he would not know her; he would be
ashamed of her. But she did not permit such reflections as these to influence her; and as soon as
she was conscious of the nature of her thoughts she
banished them.
" I'm going to support my motner, and I have no
right to be proud. If I meet my grandfather, I
should like to sell him twenty sticks of candy."
" Hallo, Katy! What are you going to do?"
said a voice behind, which she recognized as that of
her friend Tommy Howard.
"I'm going to sell this candy," replied Katy.
"You're a spunky one; mother told me all about
it. I should like two sticks," said Tommy, as he
offered her the money.
"Take two, Tommy, and as many more'as you
like."
"Two is all I want;" and he placed the two cents
on the tray.
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Katy, with a blush, for she felt ashamed to take his
money.
"That's no way to trade," laughed Tommy. " You
won't make much, if you do so. Keep the money
and I will keep the candy."
" I can't keep it, Tommy."
" You must; if you don't take the money, I won't
take the candy."
"I owe you two cents, Tommy. I will pay you
nown."
" No, you don't!"
"Please to take them; I shall feel very bad, if you
don't."
Tommy Howard looked her in the eye a moment;
he saw a tear there. Her pride was wounded, and
he took the two cents from the tray, for he did not
wish to give her pain.
"Now, we are square, Tommy," said Katy, as her
face brightened up again.
"Yes, we are, but I don't like it pretty well. One
of these days, when you get out of this scrape, I will
let you give me as much candy as you have a mind to."
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understood his motive, she was sorry she had not
permitted him to pay for the candy, for she saw that
he did not feel just right about the-transaction. It
was not exactly mercantile, but then the heart comes
before commerce. As she walked along, she could
not help thinking that her natural generosity might
seriously interfere with the profits of her enterprise.
She had a great many friends; and it became a
knotty question for her to decide whether, if she met
any of her school companions, she should give each
of them a stick of candy. She would like to do so
very much indeed; but it was certain she could not
afford to pursue such a liberal policy. It was a hard
question, and, hoping she should not meet any of her
schoolmates, she determined to refer it to her mother
for' settlement.
When she got into Washington Street, she felt that
the time for action had come. Now was the time to
sell candy; and yet she did not feel like asking folks
to buy her wares. The night before, as she lay thinking about her business, it had all seemed very easy
to her; but now it was quite a different thing. No
one seemed to take any notice of her, or to feel the




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least interest in the great mission she had undertaken. But Katy was aware that it requires some
effort in these days to sell goods, and she must work;
she must ask people to buy her candy.
There was a nice-looking gentleman, with a goodnatured face, coming down the street, and she resolved
to make a beginning with him. He couldn't say
much more than no to her, and she placed herself
in a position to accost him. But when he came near
enough, her courage all oozed out, and she let him
pass without speaking to him., "What a fool I am!" exclaimed she to herself
when he had passed.  "I shall never do any thing
in this way. There comes another gentleman who
looks as though he had a sweet tooth; at any rate,
he seems as good-natured as a pound of sugar. I will
certainly try him."
Her heart pounded against her ribs as though it
had been worked by a forty-horse engine -poor girl.
It was a great undertaking to her; quite as great as
taking a six-story granite warehouse, piling it full of
merchandise from cellar to attic, and announcing himself as ready for business, to a child of a larger




96           POOR AND PROUD, OR
growth. Every thing seemed to hang on the issues
of that tremendous moment.
" Buy some candy?" said she, in tremulous tones,
her great, swelling heart almost choking her utterance.
" No, child. I don't want any," replied the gentleman, kindly, as he glanced at the tray on which
the candy had been so invitingly spread.
"It is very nice," stammered Katy; " and perhaps
your children at home would like some, if you do
not."
Bravo, Katy! That was very well done, though
the gentleman was an old bachelor, and could not
appreciate the full force of your argument.
" Are you sure it is very nice?" asked the gentleman, with a benevolent smile, when he had laughed
heartily at Katy's jumping conclusion.
" I know it is," replied the little candy merchant,
very positively.
"Then you may give me six sticks;" and he
threw a fourpence on her tray.
Six sticks! Katy was astounded at the magnitude of her first commercial transaction. Visions of




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    97
wealth, a fine house, and silk dresses for her mother
and herself, danced through her excited brain, and
she thought that her grandfather, the great Liverpool
merchant, would not have been ashamed of her, if
he had been present to witness that' magnificent operation.
"Have you any paper to wrap it up in?" asked
the gentleman.
Here was an emergency for which Katy had not
provided.  Her grandest expectations had not extended beyond the sale of one stick at a time, and
she was not prepared for such a rush of trade. However, she tore off a piece from one of the white sheets
at the bottom of the tray, wrapped up the six sticks
as nicely as she could, and handed them to the gentleman, who then left her to find another customer.
Katy, elated by her first success, ran home as fast
as she could to procure some more white paper, of
which she had a dozen sheets that had been given
her by a friend. It was in the back room, so that
she did not disturb her mother, choosing to astonish
her with the whole story of her success at noon.
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98          POOR AND rROUD, OR
CHAPTER VIII.
KATY SELLS OUT, AND VISITS THE MAYOR.
KATY reached Washington Street once more. She
had lost all her timnidity, and would not have feared
to accost the governor, if she had met him, and request him to purchase a cent's worth of molasses
candy.
"-Buy some candy?" said she to the first person
who passed near her.
"' No!" was the prompt and emphatic answer of
the gentleman addressed.
"It is very nice," suggested Katy.
" Get out of my way," growled the gentleman, and
the little candy merchant deemed it prudent to heed
the command.
She was nettled by this rude reception, and would
have been disposed to resent it, if there had been any
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.    99
bear up against the misfortunes of trade, and her eye
followed the sour gentleman far down the street.
Why should he treat her in such a rude and unkind
manner? What would he say if she should tell him
that her grandfather was a great Liverpool merchant,
lived in a big house, and had lots of servants to wait
upon him? She was as good as he was, any day.
" Give me a stick of candy," said a nice little girl,
with a silk dress on, whom a lady was holding by
the hand, at the same time placing a cent on her
tray.
Katy started at the words, and reproved herself
for her want of meekness. She might, perhaps, have
sold half a dozen sticks of candy while she had been
watching the sour gentleman, and persuading herself that she had been very badly used. She tore
off a piece of paper, in which she wrapped up the
candy for the purchaser, and handed it to her.
"Thank you," said she, as she picked up the copper, and transferred it to her pocket.
"Your candy looks very nice," added the lady,
evidently pleased with Katy's polite manners.
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"Have you sold much to-day? "
"No, ma'am; I have but just come out."
"It looks so good, I will take half a dozen sticks
for the children at home."
"Thank you, ma'am; you are very kind," replied
Katy; and her nimble fingers had soon made a nice
little parcel for the lady, who gave her a fourpence.
Here was another avalanche of good fortune, and
the little candy merchant could hardly believe her
senses. At this rate she would soon become a wholesale dealer in the article.
"Buy some candy?" said she, addressing the next
person she met.' No."
"Buy some candy?" she continued, turning to
the next.
" No."
And so she went from one to another, and no one
seemed to have the least relish for molasses candy.
She walked till she came to State Street, and sold
only three sticks. She had begun to be a little disheartened, for the success she had met with at the
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she was not disposed to be content with moderate
sales. VWhile she was standing at the corner of
State Street, waiting impatiently for customers, she
saw a man with a basket of apples enter a store.
She crossed the street to observe what he did in
the. store, in order, if possible, to get an idea of
his mode of doing business. She saw him offer his
apples to the clerks and others in the shop, and she
was, surprised and gratified to see that nearly every
person purchased one or more of them. In her
heart she thanked the apple man for the hint he had
unconsciously afforded her, and resolved to profit by
his example.
Now that commerce was her business, she was dis.
posed to make it her study; and as she reasoned
over the matter, she came to understand why she
found so few buyers in the street. Ladies and gentlemen did not like to be seen eating candy in the
street; neither would many of them want to put it
into _their pockets, where it would melt and stick' to
their clothes. They would eat it in their shops and
houses; and with this new idea she was encouraged
to make a new effort. Walking along till she came
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to a store where there appeared to be several clerks,
she entered.
"Buy some candy? " said she, addressing a salesman near the window, as she raised up her wares so
that he could see them.
The clerk made no reply, but coming round from
behind the counter, he rudely took her arm, opened
the door, and pushed her into the street. Katy's
cheek burned with indignation at this unprovoked assault, and she wished for the power of ten
men, that she might punish the ill-natured fellow
as he deserved. But it was all for the best, for, in
pushing her out of the shop, the clerk threw her
against a iportly gentleman on the street, whose soft,
yielding form alone saved her from being tumbled
into the gutter. He showed no disposition to resent
the assault upon his obesity, and kindly caught her
in his arms.
"What is the matter, my dear?" said the gentleman, in soothing tones.
"That man pushed me out of the store," replied
Katy, bursting into tears, for she was completely
overcome-by the indignity that had been cast upon
her.




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.!103
"Perhaps you didn't behave well."
"I am sure I did. I only asked him  to buy
some candy; and he shoved me right out the door,
just as though I had been a dog."
"Well, well, don't cry, my dear; you seem to be
a very well-behaved little girl, and I wonder at finding you in such a low business."
"My mother is sick, and I am  trying to earn
something to support her," sobbed Katy, who, with
her independent notions of trade in general, and of
the candy trade in particular, would not have revealed this humiliating truth, except under the severe pressure of a wounded spirit.
"Poor child!" exclaimed the portly gentleman,
thrusting his hand deep down into his pocket, and
pulling up a handful of silver. " Here is half a
dollar for you, for I know you tell the truth."'0, no, sir; I can't take money as a gift."
"Eh?"
The gentleman looked astonished, and attempted
to persuade her; but she steadily protested against
receiving his money as a gift.
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"I am poor. and proud; but I will sell you some
candy."
"Well, give me half a dollar's worth."
"I haven't got so much. I have only fourteen
cents' worth left."
" Give me that, then."
Katy wrapped up the remainder of her stock in a
piece of paper, and handed it to the gentleman, who
in payment threw the half dollar on the tray.
"I can't change it."
" ever mind the change;" and the fat gentleman
hurried away.
Katy was so utterly astounded to find she had disposed of her entire stock, that she did not have the
presence of mind to follow him, and the half dollar
had to be placed in her treasury. She did not regard it with so much pride and pleasure as she did
the two fourpences and the four coppers, for there
was something unmercantile about the manner in
which it had come into her possession. She could
not feel satisfied with herself, as she walked towards
home, till she had argued the matter, and effected
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   105
She had sold candy for the money, and the gentleman had paid her over three cents a stick - rather
above the market value of the article; but there was
no other way to make the transaction correspond with
her ideas of propriety.
Her work was done for the forenoon, though she
had plenty of candy at home. It was now eleven
o'clock, and she had not time to sell out another
stock before dinner. As she walked up the street,
on her way home, she encountered Master Simon
Sneed, who, with the dignity and stateliness of a
merchant prince, was lugging a huge bundle of goods
to the residence of some customer.
"I am  glad to see you, Simon," said Katy.
" Have you seen your friend the mayor?"
"I am sorry to inform you, Katy, that a press of
business has prevented my calling on his honor."
" I am sorry for that. I am afraid I shall never
see the watch again."
"Depend upon it, you shall. I pledge you my
honor that I will use every exertion to recover the
Xost treasure. Just now our firm require the undivided attention of all in the3 store."




106          POOR AND PROUD, OR
"I told Mrs. Gordon all about it, and she promised to speak to the mayor."
"It was unnecessary to trouble her with the matter; my influence with the mayor will be quite
sufficient."
" I dare say it will; but when shall you see him?"
" Very soon; be patient, Katy."
" Mrs. Gordon promised to take me to the mayor
to-day, and tell him all about it."
"Take you to the mayor!" exclaimed Master
Simon.
"That's what she said."
"You will be afraid of him, and not able to tell
your story."
" No, I guess I shan't. I will tell him that I have
mentioned the matter to you."
"Perhaps you had better not; his honor, though
we have been quite intimate, may not remember my
name. But I must leave you now, for the firm get
very uneasy in my absence."
Simon shouldered his bundle again, and moved off,
and Katy walked towards home, wondering why a
person of so much importance to the Messrs. Sands




THE FORTUNES OF'RATY REDEURN.   107
& Co. should be permitted to degrade himself by
carrying bundles. When she got home, she found
her mother in a very cheerful frame of mind, the
result of her reading and meditation.
"Well, Katy, you -come back with an empty tray;
have you sold all your candy?" asked Mrs. Redburn,
as she entered the room.
"Yes, mother, every stick. I have brought back
sixty-six cents," replied Katy, emptying her pocket
on the bed.
" Sixty-six cents! But you had only thirty sticks
of candy."
" You must not blame me for what I have done,
mother; I could not help it;" and she proceeded to
narrate all the particulars of her forenoon's occupation.
Mrs. Redburn was annoyed at the incident with the
fat gentleman; more so than by the rudeness to
which Katy had been subjected. The little merchant
was so-elated at her success, that her mother could
not find it in her heart to cast a damper upon her
spirits by a single reproach. Perhaps her morning's
reflections had subdued her pride so that she did not
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108          POOR AND PROUD, OR
After dinner Katy hastened at once to Temple Street
again. To her great disappointment she found that
Mrs. Gordon and her daughter had been suddenly
called to Baltimore by the death of one of her husband's near relatives. But the kind lady had not
forgotten her, and that was a great consolation. Michael gave her a note, directed to the mayor, which
he instructed her to deliver that day.
With the assistance of Michael, she found the
house of the mayor, and though her heart beat violently, she resolutely rang the bell at the door.
"Is the mayor in?" asked she of the sleek servant man that answered the summons.
"Well, suppose he is; what of it? " replied the
servant, who could not possibly have been aware that
Katy's grandfather was a rich Liverpool merchant, or
he would have spoken more civilly to her.
"I want t6 see him."
"He don't see little brats like you," answered the
servant, shutting the door in her face.
Katy was indignant. She wished a dozen things
all at once; and among other things, she wished
Master Simon Sneed had been there, that he might




THE.ORT-UNES OF KATY REDBURN.   109
report the circumstance to his friend the mayor.
VThat was to be done?  It was mean to treat her in
that shabby manner, and she would not stand it!
She would not, that she wouldn't! Grasping the bell
handle with a courageous hand, she gave a pull that
must have astonished the occupants of the servants'
hall, and led them to believe that some distinguished
character had certainly come. The sleek man servant
reappeared at the door, ready to make his lowest bow
to the great personage, when he beheld the flashing
eye of Katy.
" How dare you ring that bell again?" snarled he.
"I want to see the mayor; I have a note for him
from Mrs. Gordon,. and I won't go away till I see
him."
"From Mrs. Gordon! Why didn't you say so?
You may come in."'
Katy entered at this invitation, and the man bade
her wait in the hall till he informed the mayor of her
errand. She was not a little pleased with the victory
she had gained, and felt quite equal, after it, to the
feat of facing the chief magistrate of the city. While
she stood there, a little boy, having in his hand a
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110          POOR AND PROUD, OR
stick of molasses candy, with which he had contrived
plentifully to bedaub his face, came out of the adjoining room, and surveyed her carefully from head
to foot. Katy looked at the candy with attention,
for it looked just like one of the sticks she had sold
that forenoon. The little fellow, who was not more
than five or six years of age, seemed to have a hearty
relish for the article, and as he turned it over, Katy
assured herself that it was a portion of her stock.
"-My pa brought home lots of candy," said the
little fellow, after he had satisfied himself with the
survey of Katy's person.
"Do you like it?" asked she, willing to cultivate
his acquaintance.
"Don't I, though!"
" Where did your father get it?"
" He bought it of a little girl; she was poor and
proud," replied the little gentleman, transferring half
an inch of the candy to his mouth.
"Dear me! " exclaimed Katy.
But her conversation was interrupted by the return
of the servant, who directed Katy to' follow him up
stairs.




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CHAPTER IX.
KATY TALKS WITH THE MAYOR, AND RECOVERS
THE WATCH.
KATY followed the servant man, whose name was
John, up stairs; but at the first turn he stopped, and
begged her not to mention that he had shut the door
upon- her.
"I don't know," said Katy. "I gave you no
reason to treat me in that ugly manner."
"You didn't; but, you see, I thought you was
some beggar, coming to disturb his honor."
"'Do I look like a beggar?" asked Katy.
"Indeed'you don't; that was a bad blunder of
mine. If you mention it, I shall lose my place."
"Well, I won't say a word then; but I hope you
will learn better manners next time."
" Thank you, miss; and be sure I'll treat you like
a lady next time."




112          POOR AND PROUD, OR
John then conducted her up stairs into a room the
walls of which -were almost covered with books.
Katy thought what a wise man the mayor must be,
for she had never seen so many books before in her
life, and took it for granted the mayor had read them
all. As she entered the apartment she saw a fat gentleman sitting at the desk, very busy in examining a
great pile of papers. When he turned his head, Katy
was not much surprised to see that it was the nice
gentleman who had given her half a dollar for fourteen cents' worth of candy.
"Ah, my dear, it is you!" exclaimed the mayor,
as he recognized the little candy merchant.
"Yes, sir; if you please, it is me," stammered
Katy, making her obeisance, and feeling very much
confused, for it was the first time she had ever come
into the presence of a great man, and she could not
exactly tell whether she ought to get down on her
knees, as she had read that people did when they
approached a king, or to remain standing.
"Well, my dear, what is your name?" continued
the mayor.
"Katy Redburn, if you please, sir," replied Katy,
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"I am glad you have come to me with this business, Katy. Mrs. Gordon speaks very handsomely
of you."
"She is very kind, sir."
"You have lost your watch - have you, Katy?"
"My father's watch, if you please, sir;" and having gained a little confidence from the kind tones of
the mayor, she proceeded to tell him the whole story
of her adventure in the pawnbroker's shop.
The mayor listened attentively to the artless recital, and promised to do all in his power to regain
the watch.
"Were you alone, Katy, when you went to the
pawnbroker's?"
"No, sir; there was one of your friends with me,"
replied she with a simple smile.
" One of my friends? "
" Yes, sir; and he promised to see you about it."
"I am afraid you have been imposed upon, Katy."
"No, sir; he has often spoken to me about his
friend the mayor."
1" But who was he?"
"iMaster Simon Sneed."
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" Sneed? Sneed?" mused the mayor.
"Yes, sir; Master Simon Sneed."
"Master? What is he? A schoolmaster? "
"0, no, sir. Every body calls him master. He
keeps store."
"' Sneed? I never heard the name before. Where
is his store? "
"In Washington Street. It says Sands & Co. on
the sign."
"0, you mean the boy that makes the fires, sweeps
out, and does the errands. I remember him now,"
said the mayor, laughing heartily at poor Katy's account of Simon. " I never heard his name before; but
he is the oldest boy of his age I ever saw."
" He was very kind to me."
"No doubt he is a very good boy; but I supposed
from your account of him that he was a member of
the firm."
"Master Simon says the firm would not be able to
get along witheout him," replied Katy, who began to
have some doubts whether Simon was so great a man
as he had represented himself to be.
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then, and I hope the Messrs. Sands will properly
appreciate his merit. Now, Katy," continued the
mayor, who had been writing while he questioned
his visitor, "you may take this note to the City Hall,
and deliver it to the city marshal: he will do all he
can to recover your lost treasure."
"Thank you, sir," replied Katy, as she took the
note.
"Now, good by, Katy, and I hope you will always
be as good as your candy is."
"I will try; good by, sir;" and she left the library and passed down stairs.
John let her out very civilly,: and seemed very
grateful to her that she had not exposed his rudeness.
She hastened to the City Hall, sure almost of recovering the watch, and gladdening her mother with
the sight of it on her return home.
Simon Sneed, after parting with Katy, had felt a
little uneasy in relation to the watch. He was jealous of his own credit, for he foresaw that Katy could
not very well avoid telling the mayor that he had
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116          POOR AND PROUD, OR
Katy's going to the mayor at all. Katy Redburn
going to see the mayor! By and by every body
would know his honor, and there would be no glory
in being acquainted with him!
His conscience seemed to reprove him because he
had done nothing towards the recovery of the watch.
What would his friend the mayor say if Katy should
happen to tell him of his neglect?  I
"Here I am," said Master Simon to himself, as he
entered the store, "a person of influence, enjoying
the friendship of the chief magistrate of the city, and
have not exerted my influence, or used my powerful
friend, to redress the injury which this poor girl has
received. I will correct my error at once, for if the
mayor should happen to invite me to dinner some
time, very likely he would reproach me for my neglect."
Having thus resolved to preserve his credit with
the chief magistrate of the city, there was fortunately
a lull in the waves of the Messrs. Sands & Co.'s affairs which enabled him to be absent for half an hour
without serious injury to their business. He hastened to the pawnbroker's at which the robbery had
been committed.




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REIDBURN.   117
"I presume you know me, sir?" said Simon.
"I haven't that honor," replied the broker.
"Perhaps you may be able to recall the circumstance of a little girl presenting herself here with a
silver watch."
"Well, I do."
" I was with her."
"Then I suppose you helped her steal it."
"Such an insinuation, sir, is unworthy a gentleman. I have come, sir, with a benevolent purpose,
as I came before. In half an hour the history of that
transaction will be conveyed to the mayor, who, allow me to inform you, is my friend."
"Your friend! " sneered the broker, who was not
particularly impressed by the magnificent manners
and the magnificent speech of Master Simon.
"The little girl has just gone with a note from
Mrs. Gordon, of Temple Street, to seek redress of the
mayor. I doubt not you will be prosecuted at once.
You have an opportunity to save yourself."
" What do you mean by that, you young puppy?"
said the broker, angrily.'"Do you mean to say I
stole the watch?"




118          POOR AND PROUD, OR
"By no means; only that you took what did not
belong to you," replied MIster Simon, blandly.
" Get out of my shop! "
"Understand me, sir; I come as. your friend."
"You-are a fool, I believe."
"You have an undoubted right to your opinion,
as I have to mine; but if you do not restore the
watch within half an hour, you will be arrested for
stealing — I beg your pardon, for taking what did
not belong to you."
There was something in the earnest manner of Simon which arrested the attention of the broker, in
spite of the former's high-flown speech.  He was
satisfied that something had been done, and he was
disposed to avoid any unpleasant consequences.
"  spoke to a policeman about the watch," said
the man. "I told him I had it, and if he found that
such a watch had been stolen, it could be found at
my shop."
"And if he did not find that such a watch had
been stolen, you meant to keep it yourself," answered Master Simon, whose earnestness made him
forget for a moment to use his high-flown words.




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"Keep a civil tongue in your head," growled the
broker. "I notified the police that I had it; that's
enough."
"Perhaps it is; I will ask my friend the mayor
about it;" and Simon moved towards the door.
"Stop a moment."
" Can't stop now."
"Here! -I will go up- to the city marshal with
you.  May" be I made a mistake in keeping the
watch; but if I did, it was only to prevent it from
falling into the hands of some one less scrupulous
than myself."
"Do I look like a thief? " asked Master Simon,
indignantly.
" It don't do to judge by appearances," replied the
broker, locking his shop door, and walking towards
the City Hall with Simon. "There are some very
-respectable looking thieves about."
Master Simon Sneed was satisfied with this explanation. He did not care to quarrel with any one
who acknowledged his respectability. In a few moments they reached the City Hall, and ascended the
stone steps to the vestibule. As they did so, Katy
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"How glad I am to find you, Master Simon!"
exclaimed she. " Can you tell me where the city
marshal's office is?"
"Here it is, Katy," replied Simon, pointing to the
door. "But what are you going to do?"
"I have got a note for the city marshal.  The
mayor gave it to me."
"You hear that, sir," said Master Simon to the
broker, with becoming dignity. "This, Katy, is the
man that has your silver watch; and he has consented to deliver it up to the rightful owner."
"Let me see the note," said the broker.
"No, I won't," replied Katy, pretty sharply.
"You are a naughty man, and I won't trust you
with it."
" But I will give you the watch."
"Give it to me, and then I will show you the
note," replied Katy, who was thinking more of getting the precious relic than of having the broker
punished.
The broker took the watch from his pocket and
handed it to her, and in return she produced the
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"I suppose there is no need of your delivering
this note now? " continued the broker, with a cunning smile.
"No; I don't care any thing about it, now that I
have got the watch," replied Katy, rejoiced beyond
measure to recover the treasure.
"Well, then, I am somewhat acquainted with the
marshal, and I will hand him the note, and explain
the circumstances. He will be perfectly satisfied.'
Katy didn't care whether he was satisfied or not,
so long as she had the watch. But the broker entered the marshal's office, and they could not see
him put the note in his pocket.
"I am so glad I got it!" exclaimed Katy.
"I doubt whether you could have recovered it if
I had not used my influence in your favor," remarked Simon, complacently. " I went to his office,
and assured him my friend the mayor had already
taken the matter in hand. I talked pretty severely
to him, and he got frightened. After all, the best
way is to use very pointed language to these fellows."
"I thank you very much, Master Simon; and I
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hope I shall be able to do something for you some
time.'
But Messrs. Sands & Co.'s affairs were suffering,
perhaps, and Simon hastened back to the store, and
Katy ran home to cheer her mother with the sight of
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CHAPTER X.
KATY, IN DISTRESS, FINDS A CHAMPION.
Now that she had recovered the precious watch,
Katy had nothing to engage her attention but the
business of selling candy. The success that had attended her forenoon's exertions was gratifying beyond her expectations, and she felt as though she
had already solved the problem; that she was not
only willing but able to support her mother. She
had originated a great idea, and she was proud of it,
Just as soon, therefore, as she had told her
mother all about the recovery of the watch, she prepared another tray of candy, resolved to sell the
whole of it before she returned. Her mother tried
to induce her to stay in the house and rest herself,
but her impatience to realize the fruits of her grand
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" Now, mother, I shall sell all this candy before
dark; so don't be uneasy about me. I am going to
make lots of money, and you shall have every thing
you want in a few weeks," said Katy, as she put on
her bonnet.
" I wish you would stay at home, and rest yourself; you have done enough for one day."
"I am not tired a bit, mother; I feel just as if I
could walk a hundred miles."
-"That's because you have got a new notion in
your head. I am afraid you will be sick, and then
what should we do?"
" 0, I shan't get sick; I promise you I won't,"
replied Katy, as she left the room.
Unfortunately for the little candy merchant it was
Wednesday afternoon, and as the schools did not
keep, there were a great many boys in the street,
and many of them were very rude, naughty boys.
When she passed up the court, some of them called
out to her, and asked her where she was going with
all that candy. She took no notice of them, for they
spoke "very rudely, and were no friends of hers.
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THIE FORTUNES OF RATY REDBURN.   12*
ance the reader made on the pier of South Boston
bridge. This young ruffian led half a dozen others
down the court in pursuit of her, for possibly they
were not satisfied with the cavalier manner in which
Katy had treated them.
"Where you going with all that candy?" repeated. the juvenile bully, when he overtook her in
Essex Street.
"I am going to sell it," replied Katy, finding she
could not escape them.
" Give us a junk, will you?" said Johnny.
"I can't give it away; I am going't6sell it, to get
money for my mother."
" Won't you give a feller a piece?"
" I can't now; perhaps I'll give you some another
time."
IKaty's heart beat violently, for she was very much,
alarmed, knowing that Johnny had not followed her
for nothing. As she made her firm but conciliatory
reply, she moved on, hoping they would not attempt
to annoy her. It was a vain hope, for Johnny kept
close to her side, his eyes fixed wistfully on the
tempting array of sweets she carried.
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"Come, don't be stingy, Katy," continued Johnny
"I don't mean to be; but I don't think I owe
you any thing," replied Katy, gathering courage in
her desperate situation.
"What do you mean by that? " demanded the
little ruffian, as he placed himself in front of her, and
thus prevented her further progress.
" Don't stop me; I'm in a hurry," said Katy.
" Gi' me some candy, then."
"No, I won't!" answered Katy, losing her patience.
",Won't you  "
Johnny made a dive at the tray, with the intention
of securing a portion of the candy; but Katy adroitly
dodged the movement, and turning up a narrow alley way, ran off. Johnny was not to be balked, and
followed her; and then she found she had made a
bad mistake in getting off the street, where there
were no passers-by to interfere in her favor.
"Johnny! " shouted one of the bully's companions. "Johnny, Tom Howard is coming."
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the words of his associates; for to tell him, under
the circumstances, that Tommy was coming, was - as
much as to say he was afraid of him. Now, as we
have said before, Johnny Grippen was a "fighting
character," and had a reputation to maintain. He
gloried in the name of being able to whip any boy
of his size in the neighborhood. He was always
ready to fight, and had, perhaps, given some hard
knocks in his time; but he sustained his character
rather by his talent for bullying, than by any conquests he had won. On the whole, he was a miserable, contemptible little bruiser, whom no decent boy
could love, or respect.  He talked so big about,'black eyes," " bloody noses," and " smashed
heads," that few boys cared to dispute his title to
the honors he had assumed. Probably some who
felt able to contest the palm with him, did not care
to dirty their fingers upon the bullying cub.
Sensible people, whether men or boys, invariably
despise the "fighting character," be he young or old.
Nine times out of ten he is both a knave' and a fool,
a coxward and a bully.
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those hearty, whole-souled boys, who are the real
lions of the play ground. He was not a "fighting
character;" and being a sensible boy, he had a
hearty contempt for Johnny Grippen. He was not
afraid of him, and though he never went an inch out
of his way to avoid a fight with him, it so happened
they had never fought.. He was entirely indifferent
to his threats, and had no great opinion of his courage. Johnny had " stumped " him to fight, and even
taken off his coat and dared him to come; but Tommy would laugh at him, tell him to put on his coat
or he would catch cold; and, contrary to the general
opinion among boys; no one ever thought the less of
him for the true courage he exhibited on these occasions.
Johnny did not like to be told that Tommy was
coming, for it reminded him that, as the king bully
of the neighborhood, one of his subjects was unconquered and rebellious. But Johnny had discretion -
and bullies generally have it. He did not like that
cool, independent way of the refractory vassal; it
warned him to be cautious.
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TH E FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   129
he came with quick pace up the court, without deigning to cast even a glance at the ruffian who menaced
her.
"Stand by, fellers, and see fair play, and I'll
lick him now," said Johnny, in a low tone, to his
companions.
" He woni't let me go," replied Katy, pointing to
her assailant.
"Go ahead, Katy; don't mind him."
"Won't you give me some- candy?" said Johnny,
stepping up before her again.
" Go ahead, Katy," repeated Tommy, placing himself between her and the bully. "Don't mind him,
Katy."
As -she advanced, Johnny pushed forward, and
made another dive at the tray, but Katy's champion
caught him by the arm and pulled him away.
" You mind out!" growled the bully, doubling up
his fists, and placing himself in the most approved
attitude, in front of the unwhipped vassal.
"Go ahead, Katy; clear out as fast as you can,"
said Tommy, who, though his bosom swelled with
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it was evident to the excited spectators that he did
not intend to " mind out."
" Come on, if you want to fight! " shouted Johnny, brandishing his fists.
" I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty
blackguard, or you wouldn't -have treated a girl like
that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake
before the bully.
" Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
" Once is enough, if you heard me; but I will
tell your father about it."
" Will you? Just say that again."
Somehow, it often happens that bullies want a person to say a thing over twice, from which we infer
that they must be very deaf or very stupid. Tommy
would not repeat the offensive remark, and Johnny's
supporters began to think he was not half so anxious
to fight as he seemed, which was certainly true. I
have no doubt, if they had been alone, he would
have found a convenient excuse for retiring from the
field, leaving it unsullied by a black eye or a bloody
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far as to say that, in more than a dozen years with
boys, in school and out, I have never heard of such a
thing as two boys getting up a fight and having it
out alone. There must be a crowd of bruisers and
"scallewags" around, to keep up the courage of the
combatants. Therefore, those who look on are just
as bad as'those who fight, for without their presence
the fight c9uld not be carried through.
Tommy Howard had said all he had to say, and
was therefore ready to depart. He turned to do so,
and walked several steps down the alley, though he
kept one eye over his shoulder to guard against accidents.
"Hit him, Johnny! " cried one of the vagabond
troop that followed in the train of the bully.
" He darsent fight," replied Johnny.
"Nor you, nuther," added another of the supporters.
This was too much for Johnny. It cut him to the
quick, and -he could not stand it. If he did not
thresh Tommy now, his reputation would be entirely
ruined.
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here;" but as Tommy did not come, he ran up
behind him, and aimed a blow at th:e side of his
hIead.
Katy's intrepid defender, who had perhaps read tin
soine Fourth of July oration that "eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty," was not to be surprised,'and
facing about, he warded off the blow. Johfiny's imperilled reputation rendered him desperate. He had
gone too far to recede, and he went into action with
all the energy and skill of a true bruiser. Tommy
was now fully roused, and his blows, which were
strictly in self-defence, fell rapidly and heavily on the
head of his assailant. But I am not going to give
iny young readers the particulars of the fight; and I
would not have let Tommy engage in such a scene:,
were it not to show up Johnny as he was, and finish'the portrait of him which I had outlined; to show
the difference between the noble, generous, brave,'and'true-hearted boy, and the little bully, whom all
-yii young friends have seen and despised.
In Something less than two minutes, Johnny Grippen, after muttering "foul play," backed out with a
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   133
ly "cowed down," as though he had been fighting
with a royal Bengal tiger. His supremacy was at an
end, and there was danger that some other bold fellow might take it into his head to thresh the donkey
after the lion's skin had been stripped from his
shoulders.
"If you are satisfied now, I'll go about my business," said Tommy, as he gazed with mingled pity
and contempt upon his crest-fallen assailant.
"You don't fight fair," grumbled Johnny, who
could not account for his defeat in any other way.
" If you're a mind to fight fair, I'll try it again with
you some time."
" I don't fight for the fun of it. I only fight when
some cowardly bully like you comes at me, and I
can't help myself. When you feel like whipping me
again, you needn't stop to let me know it beforehand.
But I will tell you this much: if you ever put your
hand on Katy Redburn, or meddle with her in any
way, I promise to pound you as handsomely as I
know how, fair or foul, the very next time I meet
you, if it isn't for seven years. Just bear that in
mind."
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Johnny made no reply; he was not in a condition
to make a reply, and the victor in the conquest departed, leaving the bully to explain his defeat as best
he could to his admirers and supporters.
"He did not hurt you - did he?" asked Katy, as
Tommy joined her at the foot of the alley, where she
had been anxiously waiting the result of the encounter.
"Not a bit, Katy. He talks very loud, but he is
a coward. I'm sorry I had to thresh him, though I
think it will do him good."
"I was afraid he'd hurt you. You were very kind
to save me from him, Tommy. I shall never forget
you, as long as I live, and I hope I shall be able to
do something for you one of these days."
"0, don't mind that, Katy. He is an ugly fellow,
and I wouldn't stand by and see him insult a girl.
But I must go now. I told Johnny if he ever meddled with you again I should give him some; if he
does, just let me know."
"I hope he won't again," replied Katy, as Tommy
moved towards home.
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THE FORTUNES OF IATY REDBURN.   135
been full of incidents, and she feared her path might
be a thorny one. But her light heart soon triumphed
over doubts and fears, and when she reached WashingtonStreet, she was as enthusiastic as ever, and as
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136          POOR AND PROUD, OR
CHAPTER XI.
KATY MEETS WITH EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS.
"BuY some candy?" said Katy to the first gentleman she met.
He did not even deign to glance at her; and five
or six attempts to sell a stick of candy were failures;
but when she remembered the success that had followed her disappointment in the morning, she did not
lose her courage. Finding *that people in the street
would not buy, she entered a shop where the clerks
seemed to be at leisure, though she did not do so
without thinking of the rude manner in which she
had been ejected from a store in the forenoon.
"Buy some candy?" said she to a good-natured
young gentleman, who was leaning over his counter
waiting for a customer.
"How do you sell it?"
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sticks of it to the mayor this forenoon. He said it
was good."
"You don't say so? Did he give you a testimonial?"
"No; he gave me half a dollar."
The clerk laughed heartily at Katy's misapprehension of his word, and his eye twinkled with mischief.
It was plain that he was not a great admirer of molasses candy, and that he only wanted to amuse himself at Katy's expense.
" You know what they do with quack medicines -
don't you?"
" Yes, I do; some folks are fools enough to take
them," replied Katy, smartly.
"That's a fact; but you don't understand me.
Dr. Swindlehanger, round the corner, would give the
mayor a hundred dollars to say his patent elixir is
good. Now, if you could only get the mayor's name
on a paper setting forth4 the virtues of your candy, I
dare say you could sell a thousand sticks in a day.
Why don't you ask him for such a paper?"
"I don't want any paper, except to wrap up my
candy in. But you don't want to buy any candy, I
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138          POOR AND PROUD, OR
see;" and Katy moved towards some more clerks at
the other end of the store.
"Yes, I do; stop a minute. I want to buy six
sticks for my grandchildren?"
"For what?"' For my grandchildren."
"You are making fun of me," said Katy, who could
see this, though the young man was so pleasant and
so funny, she could not be offended with him. "I
don't believe your mother would like it, if she should
hear you tell such a monstrous story."
The young man bit his lip. Perhaps he had a kind
mother who had taught him never to tell a lie, even
in jest. He quickly recovered his humor, however,
though it was evident that Katy's rebuke had not
been without its effect.
" For how much will you sell me the six sticks?"
continued the. clerk.
" For six cents."
" But that is the retail price; when you sell goods
at wholesale you ought not to ask so much for them."
" You shall have them for five cents then," replied
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   139
"I can't afford to give so much as that. I am a
poor man. I have to go to the theatre twice a week,
and that costs me a dollar. Then a ride Sunday afternoon costs me three dollars. So you see I don't
have much money to spend upon luxuries."
" I hope you don't go out to ride Sundays," said
Katy.
"But I do."
"What does your mother say to it."
The clerk bit his lip again. He did not like these
allusions to his mother, who perhaps lived far away
in the country, and had taught him to " remember
the Sabbath day and keep it holy." Very likely
nis conscience smote him, as he thought of her and
her blessed teachings in the far-off home of his childhood.
" I will give you two cents," said the clerk.
"I can't take that; it would hardly pay for the
molasses, to say nothing of firewood and labor."' Call it three cents, then."
"No, sir; the wholesale price is five cents for six
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"You wouldn't be poor if you saved up your
money, and kept the Sabbath. Your mother -"
"There, there! that's enough.  I will take a
dozen sticks!" exclaimed the young man, impatiently interrupting her.
"A dozen?"
"Yes, a dozen; and there are twelve cents."
"But I only ask ten."
"No matter; give me the candy, and take the
money," he replied, fearful, it may be, that she
would again allude to his mother.
Katy counted out the sticks, wrapped them up in
-a paper, and put the money in her pocket. If she
had stopped at the door to study the young man's
face, she might have detected a shadow of uneasiness
and anxiety upon it. He was a very gQod-hearted,
but rather dissolute, young man, and the allusions
she had made to his mother burned like fire in his
heart, for he had neglected her counsels, and wandered from the straight road in which she had
taught him  to walk. If she could have followed
him home, and into the solitude of his chamber,
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   141
a long letter to his distant mother   a duty he had
too long neglected. We may not follow the fortunes of this young man, but if we could, we might
see how a few words, fitly spoken, even by the lips
of an innocent youth, will sometimes produce a
powerful impression on the character; will sometimes change the whole current of a life, and
reach forward to the last day of existence.
Katy, all unconscious of the great work she had
done, congratulated herself on this success, and
wished she might find a few more such customers.
Glancing into the shop windows as she passed
along, to ascertain whether there was a good prospect for her, she soon found an inviting field.  It
was a crockery ware store that she entered this
time, and there were several persons there who
seemed not to be very busy.
" Buy some candy?" said she, presenting the tray
to the first person she met.
"Go home and wash your face," was the illnatured response.
Was it possible she had come out with a dirty
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she had  done.  It is true her clothes were shabby;
there was many a patch and darn upon her dress,
and its colors had faded out like the "last rose
of summer;" but then the dress was clean.
"Buy some candy?" said she to another, with a
sudden resolution not to be disturbed by the rudeness of those she addressed.
He took a stick, and threw down a cent, without a word.  One more did her a similar favor,
and she left the store well satisfied with the visit.
Pretty soon she came to a large piano-forte manufactory, where she knew that a great many men were
employed. She went up stairs to the counting room,
where she sold three sticks, and was about to enter
the work room, when a sign, " No admittance except
on business," confronted her.  Should she go on?
Did the sign refer to her?'She had business there,
but perhaps they would not be willing to admit
that her business was very urgent, and she dreaded
the indignity of being turned out again. Her mother
had told her there was always a right way and a
wrong way. It certainly was not right to enter in
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decided to return to the office and ask permission
to visit the workshop.
"Please may I go into the workshop? " said she,
addressing the man who had purchased the candy.
" Go in? why not.?" replied he, placing his pen
behind his ear, and looking at her with a smile of
curiosity.
"Why, it says on the door,'No admittance except on business.'"
"So it does. Well, I declare, you have got an
amount of conscience beyond your station. No one
thinks of taking any notice of that sign. Pedlers
and apple men go in without a question."
"I thought you wouldn't let people go in."
"WVe don't like to have visitors there, for they
sometimes do injury, and generally take off the attention of the men from their work. But you have
got so much conscience:labout the matter, that you
shall not only go in, but I will go with you, and
introduce you."
"Thank you, sir; I won't give you all that trouble. I can introduce myself."
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they entered a large room in which a great many
men were busily at work.
" Here is a very honest little girl," said her friend,
"who has the very best molasses candy I ever ate.
If any of you have a sweet tooth, or any children at
home, I advise you to patronize her."
The bookkeeper laughed, and the workmen
laughed, as they began to feel in their pockets for
loose change.  It was evident that the friendly
introduction was to be of great service to her.
She passed along from one man to another, and
almost every one of them bought two or three
sticks of candy, and before she had been to all of
them her stock was entirely exhausted. Katy was
astonished at her good fortune, and the men were
all exceedingly good natured.  They seemed disposed to make a pleasant thing of her visit, and to
give her a substantial benefit.
" Now, my little girl," said the bookkeeper,
"when you wish to visit the workshop again, you
may enter without further permission; and I am
sure the men will all be very glad to see you."
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the workmen. "My little girl would jump to get
a stick."
"Then she shall have some," replied Katy, "for
I will go home and get some more;" and she left
the building and hastened home for a further supply of the popular merchandise.
" O mother! I have sold out all my candy, and I
want a lot more!" exclaimed she, as she rushed
into the room, full of excitement and enthusiasm.
"Be calm, child; you will throw yourself into a
fever," replied Mrs. Redburn. "You must learn to
take things more easily."
"O dear! I have only twenty sticks left. I wish
I had a hundred, for I am sure I could sell them."'' Perhaps it is fortunate you have no more."
"But I must make some more to-night for tomorrow."
"Don't drive round so, Katy.  Be reasonable,
and don't think too much of your success."
But Katy could not stop to argue the matter,
though, as she walked along the street, she thought
of what her mother had said, and tried to calm the
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keep from running every step of the way; but her
mother's advice must be heeded, and to some extent she succeeded in controlling her violent impulses. As it was, she reached the piano-forte man.
ufactory quite out of breath, and rushed into the
work room as though she had come on an errand of
vital importance to its occupants.
It required but a few minutes to dispose of her
small stock of candy. The workmen all hoped she
would come again, and she departed highly elated at
her success.
"There, mother, I have sold all the candy. What
do you think of that?" said she, as she entered
her mother's room, and threw off her bonnet and
shawl.
"You have done very well; I had no idea that
you could sell more than twenty or thirty sticks in
a day."
"It's a great day's work, mother; and if I can sell
half as much in a day, I shall be satisfied. Don't
you think I shall be able to support you?"
"At this rate you can do much more; but, Katy,
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"Why, mother?"
"You get so excited, and run so, I am afraid it
will make you sick."
"0, no, it won't, mother. I feel as strong as a
horse. I am not tired in the least."
"You don't feel so now, because you are so excited by your success."
" I shall get used to it in a little while."
"I hope so, if you mean to follow this business."
" If I mean to? Why, mother, what else could I
do to make so much money? See here;" and she
poured the money she had taken upon the bed-quilt
before her mother. "o One dollar and thirty-six cents,
mother! Only think of it!  But I won't jump so
another day; I will take it easy."
"I wish you would."
"I will try very hard;? but you can't think
how happy I feel! Dear me! I am wasting my
time, when I have to make, the candy for tomorrow."
"But, Katy, you must not do any more to-night.
You will certainly be sick."
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" Your hands are very sore now."
"They are better; ana I don't feel tired a bit."'I will tell you what you may do, if you must
make the candy to-night. When you have got the
molasses boiled, you may, ask Mrs. Colvin, the washerwoman, to come in and pull it for you; for you are
not strong enough to do it yourself."
" I should not like to ask her. She's a poor woman, and it would be just the same as begging to
ask her to give me her work."
"You don't understand me, Katy. She goes out
to work whenever she can get a chance. Her price
is ten cents an hour. You can engage her for one or
two hours, and pay her for her labor. This is the
only way you can get along with this business."
"I will- do that. It won't take more than an
hour."
Mrs. Colvin was accordingly engaged, though at
first she positively refused to be paid for her services;
but when Katy told her she should want her for one
or two hours every day, she consented to the arrangement. Early in the evening the candy was all made,
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ing her repeated declaration that she was not tired,
the bed "felt good" to her, and she slept all the
more soundly for the hard work and the good deeds
she had done.
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150         POOR AND PROUD OR
CHAPTER XII.
rATY PAYS HER DEBTS,-AND TOMMY GOES TO SEA.
KATY'S second day's sales, though not so large as
those of the first day, were entirely satisfactory.
The profits, after paying for the "stock " and for the
services of Mrs. Colvin, were nearly a dollar, and her
heart beat with renewed hope at this continued success. Her grand idea hardly seemed like an experiment now, for she had proved that she could make
good candy, and that people were willing to buy the
article. She met with about the same treatment
from those to whom she offered her wares: one spoke
kindly, and purchased by wholesale, and another
spoke gruffly, and would not buy even a single stick.
Here she was driven out of doors, and there she was
petted, and made large sales.
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she had chosen. She was rather small in stature for
one of her age, but she was very well formed, and
her movements were agile and graceful. Her face
was not as pretty as it nfight have been, but her expression was.artless and winning. Her light brown
hair hung in curls upon her shoulders, and contributed not a little to make up the deficiency in what
the painters and sculptors would call a finely chiselled face.
If she had been dressed in silk, and lace, and embroidery, I doubt not people would have called her
pretty, though in my opinion it does not make much
difference whether she was pretty or not; for, after
all, the best way to judge of a person's beauty is by
the old standard, "Handsome is that handsome does."
But I have said thus much about Katy's face and
form in order to explain the secret of her great success as a candy merchant.  Hundreds of persons
would buy a stick of candy of a little girl with a
pretty face and a graceful form, who would not
do so of one less attractive. Though she was well
favored in this respect, I believe it was her gentle,
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loving heart, that contributed most to her success.
But above all the accidents of a good form, graceful
movements, brown ringlets, and a pleasing address,
she prospered in trade because she was in earnest,
and persevered in all her efforts. A person cannot
succeed in business by being merely good looking,
though this may sometimes be of much assistance.
It is patience, perseverance, energy, and above all,
integrity and uprightness, that lead to the true
success.
Encouraged by her prosperity, Katy continued to
sell candy with about the same result as had cheered
her heart on the first two days., Her profits, how-ever, were not so great as on those two days, and did
not average above seventy-five cents a day, or four
dollars and a half a week. This was doing exceedingly well, and she had every reason to be grateful
for her good fortune.
At the end of three weeks, rent day came round
again, and Dr. Flynch called for the money. To his
utter astonishment, it was ready for him, and he departed without a single ill-natured word, though this
was, perhaps, because he had a wholesome regard for




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the opinion of Mrs. Gordon. Two weeks later, Katy
found that her savings were sufficient to enable her
to pay the month's rent for which Mrs. Gordon had
given a receipt, and also the dollar which Grace
had loaned her. These debts had pressed heavily on
her mind. She knew that they were regarded as
free gifts, and her pride prompted her to remove
what she considered a stain upon her character.
Till they were paid, she felt like a beggar.
Taking her money one day, she paid a visit to
Temple Street. Michael opened the door, and received her with a smile. Knowing she was in favor
with -his mistress, he conducted her to the sitting
room, where the portraits hung. Those roguish eyes
of the lady, who somewhat resembled her mother,
were fixed on her again. She was sure that her
mother did not look like that picture then, but she
was equally sure that she had, some time or other,
cast just such a glance at her. The expression of the
lady found something like its counterpart in her memory. Now, her mother was sick and sad; she seldom
smiled. But some time she must have been a young
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portrait. She felt just like asking Mrs. Gordon if
that was her portrait, but she did not dare to do such
a thing. While she was attentively watching the
roguish lady's face, her kind friend entered the room,
followed by Grace.
"How do you do, Katy? " said the former, with a
benevolent smile.
"Quite well, I thank you, ma'am. I hope you
will excuse me for coming again," replied she.
" I am very glad you have come."
"I was thinking of you the other day, and wishing
I might see you," added Grace; "for the mayor told
us a very pretty story about you."
"He was very good to me; and I never shall forget him or you," answered Katy, warmly.
" I suppose you have come to get another receipt;
but I told Dr. Flynch not to disturb you," said Mrs.
Gordon.' O, no, ma'am - I didn't come for that. You
were too kind to me before, and I have come now
to pay you for that month's rent."
"Indeed?"
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enough, and I am very glad that I can pay it," replied Katy, taking the four dollars from her pocket.
"Here it is."
-"No, my child; you shall keep it. I will not
take it."
Katy's cheeks flushed, for she did not feel poor
and proud then. She felt rich; that is, she was proud
of being able to pay all she owed, and she did not
like to be thought capable of accepting a gift —of
being the recipient of charity. But she knew the
hearts of her kind friends, and left unspoken the
words of indignation that trembled on her tongue.
" Please to take the money, ma'am," said she, her
cheeks still red with shame.
"No, my child; you are a good girl; I will not
take your money."
"1 shall feel very bad if you don't, and it will
make my mother very unhappy."
"Nay, Katy, you must not be too proud."
"I am not too proud to ask or to accept a favor,
but please don't make me feel like a beggar."
"You are a very strange child," said Mrs. Gordon.
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"I shall not feel right, if you don't take this
money. You know I promised to pay you at the
time you gave me the receipt."
"I did not suppose you would; that is, I did not
think you would be able to pay it. Your mother has
got well, then? "
"No, ma'am; she is better, but she does not sit
up any yet."
" Then how did you get this money? ":' I earned it."
"You!"
"Yes, ma'am; selling candy."
" Is it possible? The mayor told me you were a
little candy merchant, but I did not suppose you carried on such an extensive trade."
I make a great deal of money; almost five dollars a week; and now I am able, I hope you will let
me pay you."
"If you insist upon it, I shall, though I had much
rather you would keep the money."
"Thank you, ma'am. I shall feel much better
when it is paid."
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It was a very small sum to her, though a very large
one to Katy. She saw that the little candy merchant's pride was of the right kind, and she was not
disposed to give her any unnecessary mortification,
though she resolved that neither Katy nor her
mother should ever want a friend in their need.
"I owe you one dollar, also," continued Katy,
advancing to the side of Grace.
"Well, I declare!" laughed  Grace. "If that
isn't a good one!"
" I promised to pay you; and you know I would
not take the money as a gift," replied Katy.
" I am aware that you would not, and you are the
promptest paymistress I ever knew."
"With the dollar you lent me, I bought the mo.
lasses to make the first lot of candy I sold. Your
dollar has done a great deal of good."
"I am glad it has; but I don't want to take it."
"Won't you let me feel like myself?"
"Certainly I will," laughed Grace.
"Then let me pay my debts, and not feel just like
a beggar."
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158         POOR AND PROUD, OR
claimed Grace, as she took the dollar. "I am going
to keep this dollar for you, and perhaps some time
you will not be so proud as you are now, though I
hope you will always have all the money you want."
"I think I shall, if my trade continues to be
good," replied Katy, who, now that all her debts had
been paid, felt a heavy load removed from her heart.
"You must bring your candy up here. The
mayor says it is very good. I have a sweet tooth,
and I will buy lots of it," added Grace.
" I will bring you up some to-morrow," replied
Katy, moving towards the door, and casting a last
glance at the mischievous lady in the picture.
" The mayor told me to ask you to call and see
him again," said Mrs. Gordon. "He is very much
interested in you."
"He is very kind;" and she bade them good by.
Katy felt highly honored by the notice the mayor
had taken of her. Like Master Simon Sneed, she
felt almost like calling him her friend the mayor;
but she resolved to call upon him on her way home.
He received her very kindly, told her what a mistake
she had made in giving the pawnbroker his note,




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Who had never delivered it to the marshal, and
promised to buy lots of candy when she came with
her tray.
When she returned home she found a message
there from Tommy Howard, requesting to see her
that afternoon. She did not feel like spending any
more time in idleness, when she had so much candy
to sell; but Tommy's request was not to be neglected; and, taking her tray, she called at his house as
she passed up the court.
Tommy had been talking for a year about.going to sea, and had been for some time on the lookout for a chance as a cabin boy or a reefer. He had
told her his plans, how he intended to be a good
sailor, and work his way up to be captain of some
fine ship.  She suspected, therefore, that he had
found a chance to go to sea; and wanted to tell her
all about it.
She found him  at home, waiting her expected
visit; but a feeling of sadness came over her when
she saw his manly face, and thought how badly she
should feel if he should go off on the ocean, and,
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160          POOR AND PROUD, OR
been her friend and  protector.  Johnny Grippen
hardly dared to look at her since the flogging he had
given him; and Katy thought, perhaps, if he went
away, that she should have no one to defend her.
"I am going to-morrow, Katy," said he, after he
had given her a seat by the window.
"To sea? " asked Katy, gloomily.
"Yes; I have got a first-rate ship, and she sails
to-morrow."
"I am so sorry you are going!"
" O, never mind it, Katy; I shall be back one of
these days. I wanted to tell you if Johnny Grippen gives you any impudence, to let me know, and
I'll lick him when I come back."
" I guess he won't."
"He may; if he dbes, you had better tell his
father."
"But where are you going, Tommy?"
"To Liverpool."
Katy started. Her grandfather lived there. After,"a moment's thought she conceived a plan which
made,her heart bound with emotion.  She could
send word to her grandfather, by Tommy, that she




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and her mother were in Boston; and then he would
send over after them, and they could live in his
fine house, and she s~hould be as happy as a queen.
Then she' and her mother might be passengers in
Tommy's ship - and wouldn't they have great times
on the passage!  And as her grandfather was a
merchant, and owned. ships, she might be able to do
something for Tommy.
Under the seal of secrecy she related to her young
sailor friend all the particulars of her mother's history; and he wrote down the names she gave him.
rommy promised to hunt all over Liverpool till he
found her grandfather; and to insure him a good
reception, Katy wrote a short letter to him, in which
she stated the principal facts in the case.
"Now, good by, Tommy," said she, wiping away
a tear;'": I- shall think of you every day, and pray
for you too. I hope there won't be any storms to
sink your ship."
"We shan't mind the storms. Good by, Katy."
She felt very badly all the rest of -the day, and her
sales were smaller than usual, for her energy was
diminished in proportion to the sadness of her heart.
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162         POOR AND PROUD, OR
CHAPTER XIII.
KATY EMPLOYS AN ASSISTANT.
As winter approached, Katy realized that the demand for molasses candy was on the increase, and
she found it necessary to make a-much larger quantity. Mrs. Colvin still rendered her assistance'" for
a consideration," and the supply was thus made to
correspond with the demand.
Mrs. Redburn's health, which had begun to improve with the advent of their prosperity, now
enabled her to sit up nearly the whole day, and.
to render much aid in the household affairs, and
especially in the manufacturing of the candy. The
good fortune that had attended Katy's efforts
brought many additional comforts to their humble
dwelling; indeed, they had every thing that they
needed, and every thing that any poor person would
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able to reconcile herself to the business which Katy
followed. She dreaded every day lest the temptations to which it constantly exposed her might lead
her astray.  She loved her daughter with all her
heart, and she would rather have died in poverty
and want than have had her corrupted.  She had
every reason to believe that Katy was the pure and
innocent child she had always been; but she feared,
as she grew older, that some harm might befall her.
She would rather bury her than see her become a
bad person, and she hoped soon to be able to resume her own labors, and let Katy abandon her
dangerous business.
Mrs. IRedburn- often talked with her about the
perils that lay in her path; but Katy spoke like one
who was fortified by good resolutions and a strong
will. She declared that she knew what dangers
were in her way, and that she could resist all the
temptations that beset her.  Whatever views the
mother had, there seemed to-be no opportunity to
carry them out, for by Katy's labors they were fed,
clothed, and housed.  She was her mother's only
support, and the candy' trade, perilous as it was,.
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164          POOR AND PROUD, OR
Katy did not desire to abandon the business she
had built up, for she was proud of her achievement.
She was resolved to be good and true, and to her
it did not seem half so perilous as to others. She
had even indulged some thoughts of enlarging her
business. Why could she not have a shop, and sell
candy on a counter as well as in the street?  She
mentioned this idea to her mother, who was sure
the shop could not succeed, for she was aware that
her daughter's winning manners were more than
half her stock in trade, and that her large sales resulted from carrying the candy to hundreds of people
who did not want it enough to go after it. Therefore Katy gave up the shop at once, but she did not
abandon the idea of enlarging her business, though
she did not exactly see how it could be done. One
day an accident solved the problem  for her, and
at that time commenced a new era in the candy
trade.
One pleasant morning in November, as she walked
up the court, she met Ann Grippen, a sister of Johnny, who stopped to talk with her. The Grippen
family consisted of eleven persons. The father was




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   165
a day laborer, and as his wages were small, and he
had a great many mouths to feed, they were, of course,
miserably poor. The older children showed no
ability or disposition to help their parents, but spent
most of their time in strolling about the streets.
Johnny was a fair specimen of the boys, as Ann was
of the girls. She might have been seen almost any
day with a well-worn basket on her arm, exploring
the streets and wharves in search of chips, for Johnny
was too vicious to do the work which more properly belonged to him.
"You sell lots of candy now - don't you?" said
Ann.
"Yes, a great deal," replied Katy, who was not
disposed to spend her time idly, and in the company
of one whose reputation in the neighborhood was not
very good.
" Stop a minute - won't you? I want to speak to
you."
"I will; but be as quick as you can, for I am in a
hurry."
"Don't you think I could sell candy?" continued
Ann.




166          POOR AND PROUD, OR
" I dare say you could. Why don't you try, if you
want to?"
"But I haven't got no candy; and mother can't
make it, as you can. If you are a.mind to let me have
some, I will sell it for you, and you may give me
what you like."
The idea struck the little merchant very favorably.
There were a great many girls just like Ann Grippen,
who were wasting their time about the streets, and
learning to be wicked. Why couldn't she employ
them to sell candy?
"I will try you," replied Katy.
" Well, I'm all ready to begin."
"Not yet," said the little candy merchant, with a
smile.
" Yes I am."
"Your face and hands are very dirty."
"What odds will that make? " asked Ann, rather
indignantly.
"Do you suppose any body would eat a stick of
candy after you had touched it with those dirty fingers?
Your customers would be afraid of being poisoned."
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seemed still to regard it as a very unnecessary opera.
tion.
"It would be a good plan; and while you are
about it you must not forget your face."
" I ain't a-going to touch the candy with my face,"
added Ann, triumphantly.
"Very true; but if people saw you with such a
dirty face, they would be afraid your candy was not
very clean."
"Any way you like. I will wash my face and
hands both, if that's all."
"But that isn't all. Your dress is very dirty and
very ragged."
"I can't afford to dress like a lady," said Ann,
who had some of her brother's disposition, and under
any other circumstances would have resented Katy's
plain home thrusts.
"You needn't dress like a lady; but the neater
and cleaner you are, the more candy you will sell."
"I will fix' up as much as I can."
"Very well; if you will come to my house tomorrow, morning, I will let you have some candy."
"-How much will you give me for selling it?"
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"I can't tell now; I will think about it, and let
you know when you come."
Katy went her way, turning 9ver and over in her
mind the scheme which Ann's application had suggested to her. She might employ a dozen girls, or
even more than that, and pay them so much a dozen
for selling the candy. She might then stop going
out to sell herself, and thus gratify her mother. She
could even go to school, and still attend to her business.
When she returned home at noon, she proposed the
plan to her mother. Mrs. Redburn was much pleased
with it, though she suggested many difficulties in the
way of its success. The girls might not be honest;
but if they were not, they could be discharged.
Many of them were vicious; they would steal or. be
saucy, so that people would not permit them to enter
their stores and offices, and the business would thus
be brought into disrepute. Katy determined to employ the best girls she could find, and to tell them all
that they must behave like ladies.
The next morning Ann Grippen appeared with her
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THE FORTUNES OF K/ATY REDBURN.   169
which by a liberal construction could be called decent.
She brought a dirty, rusty old tray, which was the
best she could obtain; yet in spite of all these disadvantages, the little candy merchant looked upon it
as a hopeful case.
" Now, Ann, you must be very civil to every body
you meet," said Katy, as she covered the rusty tray
with a sheet of clean white paper.
"I hope I know how to behave myself," replied
Ann, rather crustily.
" I dare say you do;" and she might have hinted
that there was some difference between knowing how
to do a thing and doing it. "I was only going to
tell you how to sell candy. If you don't want me to
tellyou, I won't."
"I should like to have you tell me, but I guess I
know how to behave."
"You must be very civil to every body, even when
they don't speak very pleasant to you."
" I don't know about that," replied Ann, doubtfully, for it was contrary to the Grippen philosophy
to be very civil to any one, much less to those who
were not civil to them.
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170          POOR AND PROUD, OR
"When any one buys any candy of you, you must
always say,' Thank you'; and then the next time you
meet the person he will buy again."
"How much you going to- give me for selling?"
demanded Ann, abruptly cutting short the instructions.
"Mother thinks you ought to have four cents a
dozen."
"Four cents?  My mother says I ought to have
half, and I ain't going to sell your candy for no four
cents a dozen."
"Very well; you needn't if you don't wish to do
so;" and Katy removed the sheet of white paper
she had placed over the dirty tray.
"You ought to give me half I get," added Ann,
rather softened by Katy's firmness and decision.
"Four cents is enough. I often sell a hundred
sticks in a day."
"Well, I don't care; I will try it once."
" If we find we can afford to pay any more than
four cents, we will do so."
Katy covered the tray again, and arranged two
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   171
giving Ann some further instructions in the art of
selling candy, she permitted her to depart on her
mission. She was not very confident in regard to her
success, for Ann was too coarse and ill-mannered for
a good saleswoman. She hoped for the best, however, and after preparing her own tray, she went out
to attend to business as usual. In the court she saw
Master Simon Sneed, who was setting on his father's
doorstep. She noticed that he looked sad and downhearted; and when he spoke to her the tones of his
voice indicated the same depression of spirits.
"Have you seen the mayor lately, Katy," asked
Simon, as she approached.
"Not very lately.", I should like to see him," added he, raising his
eyes to her.
"Why don't you call upon himi?  You know where
l'e lives - don't you?"
"Yes, but    "
Master Simon paused, as though he did not like to
explain the reason. Katy waited for him to proceed;
but as he did not, she remarked'that he looked very -
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172          POOR AND PROUD, OR
"Something has happened," replied he, gloomily.
"Nothing bad, I hope."
"I'have left my place at Sands & Co.'s."
"Left it? Why, how can they possibly get along
without you?" exclaimed Katy.
"It-is their own fault; and though I say it, who
should not say it, they will never find another young
w;nan who will do as much for them as I have done."
" I shouldn't think they would have let you go."
" Nor I; but some men never know when they are
well used."
" How did it happen?"
" I asked them for an increase of salary, and told
them I could stay no longer unless they did so. And
what do you think they did?"
"I don't know; I should suppose they would have
rajsed your salary."
~ "No, Katy," added Simon, bitterly. "Mr. Sands
told me I might go; he wouldn't have me at any rate.
Wasn't that cool? Well, well; if they don't know
their own interest, they must bear the consequences.
If they fail, or lose all their trade, they can't blame
me for it. Now I have nothing to do; and I was




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just thinking whether my friend the mayor couldn't
help me into a situation."
" I dare say he can. Why don't you call in4' see
him at once?"
"I don't like to do so. He sees so many persons
that I really don't think he would recollect me. I
must get something to do, though; for my father is
sick, and winter is coming on."
"How much salary did you get, Master Simon? "
asked Katy, who highly approved his- determination
not to be a burden upon his father.
"Two dollars and a half a week."
" Is that all?"
"Yes; they ought to have given me ten. Even
that was better than nothing."
"I was thinking of something, Master Simon,"
said Katy, after a pause.
"What, Katy?"
"I make four or five dollars a week."
"Is it possible! "
"If you have a mind to sell candy, I will furnish
you all you want, so that you can make at least three
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174          POOR AND PROUD, OR
The lip of Master Simon slowly curled, till his
face bore an expression of sovereign contempt. He
rose from his seat, and fixed his eyes rather -sternly
upon the little candy merchant, who began to think
she had made a bad mistake, though all the time she
had intended to do a kind act.
"What have I done, Katy, that you should insult
me? Do you think I have sunk so low as to peddle
candy about the streets?" said he, contemptuously.
" Do you think I have sunk very low, Master
Simon?" asked Katy, with a pleasant smile on her
face.
"Your business is very low," he replied, more
gently.
"Is that business low by which I honestly make
money enough to support my sick mother and myself?"
"It would be low for me; my ideas run a little
higher than that," answered Simon, rather disposed
to apologize for his hard words; for Katy's smile had
conquered him, as a smile oftener will conquer than a
hard word. -
"You know best; but if I can do any thing for
you, Master Simon, I shall be very glad to do so."




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"Thank you, Katy; you mean right, but never
speak to me about selling candy again. I think you
can help me."
"Then I will."
"I will see you again when I get my plan arranged. In the mean time, if you happen to meet
my friend the mayor, just speak a good word for
me."
" I will;" and Katy left him.




176         POOR AND PROUD, OR
CHAPTER XIV.
MASTER SIMON SNEED MAKES A MISTAKE.
CONTRARY to theexpectations of Katy and her
mother, Ann Grippen returned at noon with her tray
empty, having sold the whole two dozen sticks.
"Well, Ann, how do you like the business?"
asked Katy.
" First rate. Here is twenty-four cents," replied
Ann; and it was evident, from her good-natured
laugh, that she was much encouraged by her success.
"You may give me sixteen; the other eight belong to you."
" I think I can do something at it," added Ann,
as she regarded with much satisfaction the first
money she had ever earned in her life.
"You can, if you work it right; but you must be
very gentle and patient; you must keep yourself
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"Well, I guess I know  all about that," interrupted Ann, who did not like this style of
remark.
" Katy," said her mother, who was sitting in her
rocking chair, by the fire.
"What, mother?"
"Come here a moment."
Katy crossed the room  to her mother, to hear
what she wished to say.
"You must not talk to her in that style," said
Mrs. Redburn, in a tone so low that Ann could not
hear her.
"Why not, mother? I was only telling her how
to do."
" But you speak in that tone of superiority which
no one likes to hear. You are but a child, as she is,and she will not listen to such advice from you."
Katy wondered what her mother would have
thought if she had heard what she'said to Ann the
day before. Yet she was conscious that she had
"put on airs,'" and talked like a very old and a very
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this afternoon," resumed Katy, joining her assistant again.
"I don't care if I do."
"Well, come this afternoon, and you shall have
some more candy;" and Ann ran home to get her
dinner.
"I think my plan will work well, mother," said
Katy, when she had gone.
"It has so far, but you must not be too sure."
" I mean to go out after dinner and hunt up some
more girls, for you see I shall have no candy to sell
myself this afternoon, when I have given Ann two
dozen sticks."
"I hope you will not attempt to lecture them as
you did her."
"Wthy, mother, I know all about the business, and
they don't know any thing."
" I doubt not you are competent to advise them;
but the manner in which you address them is more
offensive than the matter. Your knowledge of the
business makes you treat them as inferiors. You
must not think too much of yourself, Katy."
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"I am afraid there is. Persons in authority, who
are gentle and kind, and do not act like superiors,
are more promptly obeyed, and more loved and respected, than those who are puffed up by their office,
and tyrannical in their manners."
"But I am not a person in authority, mother,"
laughed Katy.
"You will be, if you employ a dozen girls to sell
candy for you."
AfterKaty had eaten her dinner, and fitted out
Ann, Grippen, she left the house in search of some
more assistants. She was well known to all the boys
and girls in the neighborhood; and when she stated
her object to one and another of them, she was
readily understood. To help her cause, it had begun
to be known that Ann Grippen had been seen with a
clean face, selling candy in the street. She had no
difficulty; therefore, in procuring the services of half
a dozen girls, who were delighted, with the plan,
especially when Katy informed them  of Ann's
success.
On her return home, she found that Simon Sneed
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his house. When she knocked, he came to the door,
and invited her into the parlor.
" Well, Katy, I have hit upon something," said he.
"I am glad you have."
"I went down town after I saw you, and hearing
of a place in Tremont Row, I went to apply for it."
"Did you get it?"
" Not yet, but I hope to get it. They agreed to
give me three dollars a week if every thing proved
satisfactory; but they wanted a recommendation
from my last employers."
"Of course they will give you one."
"No, they would not; they were offended because
I left them."
"Then you asked them?"
" Yes, I went after one this forenoon, and they
would not give it to me. I did not much expect
they would, and I so informed Messrs. Runn & Reed,
the firm to which I have applied for an engagement.
I told them exactly how the case stood; that I had
demanded'higher wages, and the Messrs. Sands were
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   181
understood my position.  When I spoke to them
about my friend the mayor, they looked surprised,
and said a recommendation from him would satisfy
them. So you see just how I am situated."
"Why don't you go- to him at once, and ask him
for the recommendation?" said Katy, wondering
why he hesitated at so plain a case.
But Master Simon had some scruples about doing
so. He was old enough to know that it was rather
a delicate business to ask a man in a high official
station for a testimonial on so slight an acquaintance. The mayor was interested in Katy, though
she did not presume to call him her friend. She
had twice called upon him, and she might again.
"I don't like to ask him, -Katy. I feel some
delicacy about doing so."
" I should just as lief ask him as not, if I were
you.  I am afraid you are too proud, Master Simon."
"I am proud, Katy; that's just it. I was born
to be a' gentleman, but I submit to my lot. - I am
willing to sell my talents and my labor for money.
If I can once get in at Runn & Reed's, I am sure
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they will appreciate me, and consider it a lucky day
on which they engaged me."
" If you want me to go to the mayor's house with
you, I will," said Katy, who did not clearly comprehend Simon's wishes.
"Well, I think I will not go myself," replied
Simon.
"Why not?"
"I do not like to place myself in a humiliating
posture before great men. If I were mayor of Boston, I should like to do him the favor which I ask
for myself. When I am      "
"You haven't asked him, Master Simon."
" In a word, Katy, I want you to ask him for me.
You will do me a great favor."
"I will," replied Katy, promptly.
" The'mayor is a very fine man, kind hearted, and
willing to help every body that deserves help; and
if he were not my friend, I should feel no delicacy
in asking him, myself. You can state the case, and
inform him who I am, and what I am; that you
know me to be honest and faithful. You can tell
him, too, that I am a gentlemanly person, of pleasing address."




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"But I can't remember all that," interposed
Katy.
"Tell him what you can recollect, then. He is
an easy, good-natured man, and will give you the
testimonial at once."
"Suppose you write a paper, just such as you
want, Master Simon.  Then he can copy it."
"Well, I will do that."
Simon seated himself at a table, and, after considerable effort, produced the following piece of
elegant composition, which he read to Katy:" To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
" This may certify that I have been for some time
acquainted with my friend Mr. Simon Sneed, and I
believe him to be an honest and faithful young
man, of gentlemanly bearing, pleasing address, and
polite manners, who will be an honor and an ornament to any establishment that may be so fortunate
as to secure his valuable services; and I cheerfully
recommend him to any person to whom he may
apply for a situation.
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"I have left a blank space for his honor's signature," continued Master Simon, when he had read
the modest document. "What do you think of it,
Katy?"
"It is very fine. What a great scholar you must
be! I should think you'd write a book."
" Perhaps I may one of these days."
"I will go right up to the mayor's house now,"
said Katy, as she bade him good afternoon.
Before she went, she returned home and nicely
enclosed six sticks of candy in white paper as a
present for Freddie, the mayor's little son. On her
way up to Park Street she opened Simon's paper,
and read it. It sounded funny to her, with its big
words and fine sentences; and then what a puffing
Master Simon had given himself! She even began
to wonder if there was not something about her genAtlemanly friend which was not all right.
She reached the mayor's house, and as it was his
time to be at home, she was conducted to the
library.
"Ah, Katy, I am glad to see you," said he, taking
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"Thank you, sir. I have brought this candy for
Master Freddie."
"You are very good, and I suppose you are so
proud that I must not offer to pay you for it."
"If you please, don't, sir," replied Katy, unconsciously taking Master Simon's testimonial from her
pocket. "I don't want you to pay me in money, but
you may pay me in another way, if you please."
"May I? What have you in your hand?"
"A paper, sir.  You remember Master Simon
Sneed?"
-" No, I don't."
" The young man at Sands & Co.'s."
".0, yes; the young gentleman that uses so many
long words."
"He has left his place, and wants to get another."
"Has he left it? Why was that?"
"He asked for more wages. He has found
another place, which he can have if he can get a testimonial."
"Let him ask Sands & Co."
"They won't give him one, because they are so
angry with him for leaving them."
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186          PooR AND PROUD, OR'" That indeed.",
"Master Simon wants you to give him one," continued Katy, who, in her confusion was jumping at
the conclusion of the matter rather too hastily, and
before she had produced a proper impression in
regard to her hero's transcendent character and.
ability.'jDoes he, indeed," laughed the mayor. "He is
very modest."
"He said, as you were his friend, you would not
objectto giving him one."
"What have you in your hand, Katy?  Has he
written one to save me the trouble?" laughed the
mayor.
"I asked him to do so. You can copy it off, if
you please, sir."
The mayor took the testimonial and proceeded to
read it. Katy had already concluded from his manner, that the business was not all correct, and she
wished herself out of the scrape. He finished the
reading, and then burst into a: violent fit of laughter.
"Your friend is very modest, Katy;  my friend,
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDEURN.   187
"I hope I haven't done any thing wrong, sir?"
stammered Katy.
"No, Katy; you have been imposed upon, by a
silly young man. You meant to do him a kindness -
in your heart you had niothing but kindness - and I
think the more of you for what you have done, and
the, less of- Simon for what he has done. Did he
think.I would recommend him, when I know nothing
about him? He is a conceited puppy, and, in my
opinion,,a worthless fellow. One of these days he
will be' an honor and an ornament' to -the workhouse,
if he does business~ in this manner."
"Dear me!" exclaimed Katy, frightened at the
remarks of the mayor.
"Now, Katy, we will go to the store of the Messrs.
Sands-& Co., and find out about this young man. I
will meet you there at half past four. — Good by,
Katy. Freddie thinks ever so much of you now, and
in his behalf I thank you for the candy."
Katy did not know exactly what to make of herposition; but at the time fixed, she was at the store
of Sands & Co., where the mayor soon joined her.
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188          POOR AND PROUD, OR
say of Master Simon," said he; and she followed him
into the store.
The mayor stated his business, and inquired concerning the character of Simon.
" He is honest, and did his work very well," replied
Mr. Sands.
Katy was pleased to hear this, and the mayor confessed his surprise.
"But he was an intolerable nuisance about the
store," continued Mr. Sands. "With only a small
amount of modesty, he would have done very well;
as it was, he was the biggest man in our employ.
Our customers were disgusted with him, and we had
been thinking of getting rid of him for a long time.
When he asked for more wages, impudently declaring
he would leave if we did not accede to his demand,
we discharged him. In a word, I wouldn't have him
round the store at any price."
"As I supposed," replied the mayor, as he showed
Mr. Sands the recommendation Simon had written.
"This sounds just like him."
Katy pitied poor Simon now that she understood
him, and she went home determined to tell him all
that had passed between the mayor and herself.




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN       1 89
CHAPTER XV.
KATY GETS A LETTER FROMI LIVERPOOL.
MASTER Simon Sneed sat at the window when
Katy returned, and she had to tell him all about it.
She pitiedhim, poor fellow, and she hoped the lesson
would do him good. She did not like to tell him so
many unpleasant things, for they would wound his
pride.
" Well, Katy, what did my friend the mayor say? "
asked Simon, as he joined her on the sidewalk.
"I am afraid you will not call him your friend
after this," replied Katy.
"Why? He had not the effrontery to refuse my
reasonable request?"
"The what? Please to use words that I can understand," said she, for she was ndt a little disgusted
with Simon's big words, now she knew how much
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190         POOR AND PROUD, OR
"Didn't he give you the paper?"
" He did not."
"I didn't think that of him. It was shabby."
"He said he did not know you. But I showed
him your paper, in which you had written down what
you thought of yourself."
"Well, what did he say to that?" asked Simon,
eagerly.
"I thought he would split his fat sides laughing.
He didn't seem to believe a word of it."
"He didn't? I am surprised at that."
" He said you were a conceited puppy."
"I always took the mayor for a sensible fellow; I
see I have been mistaken."
"He didn't like it because you sent me to him
upon such an errand. He said you had imposed upon
me."
" Gi on, Katy; I may expect any thing after what
you have said," replied Simon, with all the coolness
and indifference he could command.
"He said he believed you were a worthless fellow.
Then he told me to meet him at the store of the
Messrs. Sands & Co., and he would inquire about
you."




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   191
"Then you went to the store?"
"We did; and when the mayor asked Mr. Sands
about you, he said you were honest, and did your
work well, but -"
"Notice that remark particularly.  I hope you
called the mayor's attention to it," interrupted Master
Simon. "What else did he say?'
"He said you were a nuisance —  "
"Observe how far his prejudices carried him.
That man believed, if I staid in the store, that I
should supplant him and his partner. You see how
far he carried his spite."
" But he said all the good he could of you, Simon,"
said Katy. "He said you were honest, and did your
work well."
"Can a nuisance be honest, and do work well?
Hath not a Jew eyes?" queried Mr. Simon, with
dramatic fervor.
"He didn't say any thing about Jews."
"I was quoting Shakspeare, the immortal. bard
of Avon. Katy, Sands knew that I was securing the
respect and esteem of all his customers; and he
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192          POOR AND PROUD, OR
meit, I should take half his trade with me," continued the injured Sneed.
"He said his customers were disgusted with you.
You talked so big, and thought so much of yourself,
he would not have you in the store at any price.
But I should think that Runn & Reed would be
glad to have you if you can carry so much trade
with you."
"They cannot know, till I have had a chance to
show them what I can do."
" I hope you will soon have such a chance."
"There is one thing about it; when I do, Sands
& Co. will see the mistake they have made. I think
the ladies that visit their store will miss a familiar
face. They used to insist upon my waiting upon
them, though it was not exactly in the line of my
duty to sell goods. Often was I called away from
the bundle department to attend them. No one
seemed to suit them but me. Why, it was only the
day before I left that an elegant, aristocratic lady
from  Beacon Street made me go clear home with
her."''"Why, what for?"




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   193
"To carry her bundle; but that was all a pretence."
"Did she invite you to tea, Master Simon?"
asked Katy, who could hardly help laughing in his
face.
"No, but she kept me quarter of an hour at the
door."
" What did she say?"
"She was trying to make it out that I had brought
the wrong bundle, and so she opened it in the entry; but it was only to keep me there."
" You think she was smitten? " laughed Katy.
"I have an opinion," replied Simon, sagely.
"There are a good many fine ladies will miss my
face."
Katy didn't think any fine lady could be very
much charmed with that thin, hatchet face; and she
realized now that -Master Simon was a great heap of
vanity. She never thought before that he could be
so silly. She wanted to tell him that he was a great
fool, for she feared he would never find it out himself; but he was older than she was, and she did not
think it quite proper to do so.
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194       - POOR AND PROUD, OR
"I must go now," said Katy. "If you don't find
any thing you like better, you can sell candy, you
know."
" Katy!" exclaimed Simon, sternly.
" I am poor and proud, Master Simon; I am too
proud to be dependent, or do any thing mean and
wicked; but I am not too proud to sell candy."
"I am," replied Simon, with dignity.
"Then yours is a foolish pride," replied Katy,
with a smile to soften the hard words; and she
walked away towards her own house.
She felt thankful that she had no such pride as
Simon's; and she had reason to be thankful, for
when any person is too proud to do the work which
God has placed within his reach, he becomes a pitiable object, and honest men will regard him with
contempt.
Katy had to work very hard that evening, in
making candy for her assistants to sell, and it was
nine o'clock before she was ready to go to bed.
The next morning, all the girls who had engaged
to come, appeared with their trays, and were supplied
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THE FORTUNES OF IATY REDBURN.   195
the art of selling; taking upon herself no airs, and
assuming no superiority. Ann Grippen came with
them, and seemed to be very much pleased with her
new occupation.
At noon they all returned, though only two of
them had sold out their two dozen sticks. Katy
gave them further instructions in regard to the best
places to sell candy, and when they came home at
night, all but one had disposed of their stock. The
experiment, therefore, was regarded as a successful
one. The next day several other girls, who had
heard of Katy's plan, came to the house, and wanted
to be engaged. The little merchant could not supply them, but promised, if they would come the next
day, to furnish them with a stock. Even now, the
quantity manufactured required the services of Mrs.
Colvin for three hours, and this day she engaged her
to come immediately after dinner.
I need not detail the manner in which Katy's trade
kept increasing. In a fortnight she had more than
a dozen girls employed in selling candy. She was
actually making a wholesale business of it, and no
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196          POOR AND PROUD, OR
first of December, Mrs. Redburn had so far recovered her health as to be able to take the charge of
the manufacturing part of the business, and Katy
was permitted to go to school, though she supplied
the girls in the morning and at noon, and settled all
their accounts.
One day she received a call from Michael, Mrs.
Gordon's man, requesting her attendance in Temple
Street. She obeyed the summons; but when she met
Mrs. Gordon and Grace, she was alarmed to see how
coldly and reproachfully they looked upon her.
"I have heard a very bad story about you, Katy,;"
said Mrs. Gordon.
"About me?" gasped she.
"Yes; and I was very sorry to hear it."
"What was it, ma'am?  I hope I haven't done
any thing to lose your good will."
"I am afraid you have."
"I don't believe she did it, mother," said Grace.
"She is too good to do any such thing."
"W Vhat is it? Do tell me."'
"I have been told that a little girl, who sells
candy, has been playing tricks upon passers-by in
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   197
"I never did such a thing! " protested Katy, her
cheeks covered with the blush of indignation.
Mrs. Gordon explained the deception, and spoke
in very severe terms of it. The trick had been
played off on a friend of hers, who had told of it
the evening before.
" When was it, ma'am?" asked Katy.
" Yesterday forenoon."
"I was in school then. Besides, I haven't sold
any candy in the street for more  than  three
weeks."
"I knew it wasn't she!" exclaimed Grace, triumphantly.
" I was very unwilling to believe it," added Mrs.
Gordon; "but the description seemed to point you
out as the little deceiver."
"I wouldn't do such a thing, ma'am. If you inquire, you will find that I have been in school every
day this week."
"I believe you, Katy. But can you tell me who't was?"
"I don't know, but I will find out;" and before
she took her leave she told the ladies how she
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198          POOR AND PROUD, OR
conducted her business, which amused them very
much.
"Who played this trick? " said she to herself,
when she got into the street. " If I can only find
out, I will discharge her. She will bring the business into contempt."
Of course no one would own it, and the only way
she could find out was by watching them. It must
be stopped, for, besides being too honest to allow
such deception, Katy saw that it would spoil the
trade.
When she got home, she found a letter which the
penny-post had brought, directed to her in large
school-boy hand.
" It is from Tommy," exclaimed she, eagerly seizing the letter and retiring to a corner to read it.
"You and Tommy are great friends," said her
mother.
" Yes, mother; but don't you see it came all the
way from Liverpool'? "
Mrs. Redburn sighed deeply at the mention of her
native city, and a thousand memories of the past
flitted before her. Katy broke the seal, and as this




THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   199
letter contained some very important information, my
young readers may look over her shoulder while she
reads it. It was as follows:
"LIVERPTOL, Nov. 13, 1843.
" DEAR FRIEND: I take my pen in hand to let
you know that I am well, and I hope these few lines
will find you enjoying the same blessing. I arrived
to Liverpool safe and sound, and when I get home, I
will tell you all about it. Just as we got into the
dock, I kept thinking about what you told me. They
won't let us have any fires on board ship in the docks;
so we all board ashore. I asked the man where we
stopped if he knew such a merchant as Matthew
Guthrie. He did not know him, and never heard of
him. Then I went round among the big merchants,
and asked about your grandfather. I asked a good
many before I found one who knew him, and he said
your grandfather had been dead ten years. I asked
him where the family was. He said Mr. Guthrie had
only twvo daughters; that one of them had run away
with her father's clerk, and the other, was married
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200          POOR AND PROUD, OR
to Baltimore. This was all he knew about it, and all
I could find out. We shall sail home in about three
weeks. I thought you would like to know; so I wrote
this letter to send by the steamer. Drop in and see
my mother, and tell her I am well, and had a tiptop voyage over. No more at present from
Your affectionate friend,
-THMoAS HOWARD."
Katy read the letter twice over, and then gave it to
her mother, after explaining that she had told Tommy
her story, and requested him to inquire about her
grandfather. Mrs. Redburn was too much affected
by the news from her early home to find fault with
Katy for what she had done.
Both of them felt very sad, for while Mrs. Redburn thought of her father, who had lain in his grave
ten years without her knowledge, Katy could not but
mourn over the hopes which Tommy's letter had
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CHAPTER XVI.
ANN GRIPPEN PLAYS TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS.
THE next day was Wednesday, and as school kept
but half a day, Katy resolved to spend the afternoon
in finding out which of her employees was in the
habit of practising the deception which Mrs. Gordon
had described to her. She could' think of no one
upon whom she could fasten the guilt, unless it was
Ann Grippen, who, she thought, would be more likely
to play such a trick than any other. After she had
delivered their candy, she put on her things and followed the girls down to State Street, where they sep-!arated. Ann went up Court Street, and Katy decided
that she needed watching, and so she followed her.
It was a very tedious afternoon to the little wholesale merchant, but the dignity of the trade depended
upon her efforts in seeking the offender.  Ann
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good luck with her stock. At last she appeared to
grow tired of her labors, and turned into an alley.
Katy wondered what she was going to do there, for it
was certainly no place to sell candy. She waited
some time for her to come out, and when she heard
her steps, she placed herself at the corner of the alley, in such a position that Ann could not see her
face.
Presently she heard Ann crying with all her
might; and crying so very naturally that she could
hardly persuade herself that it was not real. She
glanced over her shoulder at her, and discovered that
she had broken the nice sticks of candy int&o a great
many little pieces; and it was for this purpose that
she had gone into the alley.  Katy was indignant
when she saw so much valuable merchandise thus
ruthlessly mutilated, and the sale of it spoiled. She
was disposed to present herself to the artful girl, andi
soundly lecture her for the deceit and wickedness; but
she wanted to see how the game was played.
"Boo, hoo, hoo!" sobbed Ann Grippen, apparently
suffering all the pangs of a broken heart, which
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"What is the matter, little girl?" asked a believolent lady, attracted by the distress of Ann.
"Boo, hoo, hoo!" cried Ann, unable to speak on
account of the torrents of woe that overwhelmed her.
"Don't cry, little girl, and tell me what the matter
is," continued the kind lady.
"Boo, hoo, hoo! I fell down and broke all my
candy," sobbed Ann.
" Poor child! " exclaimed the sympathizing lady.
" My father'll beat me because I didn't sell it,"
added Ann.
"He is a cruel man. Are you sure he will punish
you."
"Yes, ma'am," groaned Ann. "He'll whip me
almost to death if I don't bring home half a dollar."
" You can tell him you fell down and broke the
candy," suggested the lady.
"He won't believe me; he'll say I sold the candy
and spent the money. 0, dear me."
"You can show him the pieces."
"Boo, hoo, hoo! Then he'll say I broke it on
purpose, because I was too lazy to sell it; and then
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"I will go and see him, and tell him about the
accident. Where do you live? "
"Down North Square. He ain't to home now,"
replied Ann, who was not quite prepared for this
method of treating the subject.
"Poor child! I pity you," sighed the lady.
-' O, dear me!" cried Ann, exerting herself to the
utmost to deepen the impression she had made.
"How much do you want to make up the value
of your candy?"
"' Half a dollar."
" There it is, poor child! If it will save you from
abuse, you are welcome to it."
"Thank you, ma'am. It may save my life," replied
Ann, as she took the half dollar and put it in her
pocket.
"What an awful liar she is! " said Katy to herself,
as the lady hurried on, probably much pleased with
herself as she thought of the kind act she supposed
she had done.
Katy was curious to know what her unworthy assistant would do next, and she followed her down
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can House. She could not believe that Ann would
have the hardihood to play off the' same trick again
so soon; and she was very much surprised and very
indignant when she saw her begin to cry with all her
might, just as she had done before. While the
deceitful girl's eyes were covered with her apron, in
the extremity of her grief, Katy contrived to get on
the hotel steps behind her, so that she could see and
hear all that passed.
"What is the matter with that girl? " asked a gentleman, who presently appeared at the door, addressing another who wgs just behind him.
" It is the broken candy dodge," replied the second
gentleman. "That trick has been played off a dozen
times within a week."
-' What does it mean?" asked the first. "I don't
understand it."
The second explained the trick, precisely as Katy
had just witnessed it in Court Street.
"Now, don't say a word," he continued. "I have
a counterfeit half dollar in my pocket, and you shall
see how it is done."
With this announcement of his purpose, he
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accosted Ann, who told him about the same story
she had told the lady, and he finally gave her the
counterfeit half dollar, which Ann did not suspect
was a bad one.
" How abominably wicked  she is!" exclaimed
Katy, as she followed her up the street. " But I will
soon spoil all her fun, and cut off her profits. I will
teach her that honesty is the best policy."
It was easier for Katy to resolve what to do than
it was to do it; for the wicked girl could easily get
her stock through another person. As she walked
up the street, Ann lightened her load by eating the
pieces of broken candy, upon which she seemed to
feed with hearty relish. At a window in Court
Street, Ann stopped to look at some pictures, when
she was joined by another of the candy sellers, and
they walked together till they came to an unfrequented court, which they entered. Katy could hear
enough of their conversation, as she followed them,
to ascertain that they were talking about the tricks
Ann had practised. In the court they seated themselves on a door stone, and as they talked and
laughed about the deceit, they ate the pieces of candy.




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"There," said Ann, "I have made a dollar and ten
cents this afternoon. You don't catch me walking all
over the city for twenty-four cents, when I don't get
but- eight of that."
" I ain't so smart as you," modestly replied Julia
Morgan, the other girl.
"You'll learn," said Ann, as she took out her
money and exhibited the two half dollars.
" I don't think people would believe me, if I should
try that game."
"Try some other. I think I shall, for I've about
used up the broken candy game."
"What other? "
"I have one," replied Ann, prudently declining to
divulge her secret; "and when I've tried it, I'll tell
you all about it."
" Why don't you try it now?"
"I would if my candy wasn't broken."
"I will let you have mine."
"Then I will."
"Give me fourteen cents."
"I will when I've done with it."
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that if Ann would cheat one person, she would
another.
But Ann was so much interested in the experiment,
that she decided to give the fourteen cents, and took
the candy. Katy wondered what the new game
could be, and wanted to see her carry it out, though
her conscience smote her for permitting the lady to be
deceived, when she could have unmasked the deceit.
She resolved not to let another person be deceived,
and followed the two girls into State Street, as much
for the purpose of exposing Ann's wickedness, as to
learn the trick she intended to play.
"Now you go away," said Ann to her companion,
as she placed herself on the steps of the Merchants'
Bank.
It was nearly dark by this time, and as there were
but few persons in the street, Ann did not commence
her part of the performance till she saw a well-dressed
gentleman approach; whereupon she began to cry
as she had done twice before that day.
"Boo, hoo, hoo!  O, dear me!  I shall be
killed! " cried she, so lustily, that the well-dressed
gentleman could not decently avoid inquiring the
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"I haven't sold out," sobbed Ann.
"What if you haven't? Why need you cry about
it?" asked the stranger.
"My mother will kill me if I go home without
half a dollar."
"She is a cruel woman, then."
"Boo, hoo, boo! She'll beat me to death! 0,
dear me! I only got ten cents."
"Wrhy don't you fly round and sell your candy?"
said the gentleman.
"I can't now; the folks have all gone, and it's
almost dark. 0, I wish I was dead!"
"VWell, well, don't cry any more; I'll give you
half a dollar, and that will make, it all' right;" and
he put his hand in his pocket for the money.
"Don't give it to her," said Katy, stepping out of
the lane by the side of the bank. "She has deceived
you, sir."
"Deceived me has she?" added the stranger, as
he glanced at Katy.
"Yes, sir. She has got more than a dollar in her
pocket now."
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"Don't you believe her," sobbed Ann, still prudently keeping up the appearance of grief.
"How do you know she has deceived me? " asked
the stranger, not a little piqued, as he thought how
readily he had credited the girl's story.
"' Because I saw her play a trick just like this twice
before this afternoon. She has two half dollars in
her pocket now, though one of them is counterfeit."
"What do you mean by that, Katy Redburn? "
demanded Ann, angrily, and now forgeting her woe
and her tears. ace
"You speak very positively," said the gentleman
to Katy; " and if what you say is true, something
should be done about it."
" She is telling lies! " exclaimed Ann, much excited.
"WVe can soon determine, for here comes a policeman, and I will refer the matter to him."
At these words, Ann edged off the steps of the
bank, and suddenly started off as fast as she could
run, having, it seemed, a very wholesome aversion to
policemen. But she made a bad mistake, for, not
seeing in what direction the officer was approaching,
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"Stop her!" shouted the gentleman.
The policeman laid a rude hand upon her shoulder,
and marched her back to the bank. In a few words
the gentleman stated what had happened, and requested the officer to search her, and thus decide
whether Katy told the truth or not. He readily consented, and on turning out Ann's pocket, produced
the two half dollars, one of which the gentleman decided was a counterfeit coin.
" How could you know this was a counterfeit?"
he asked of Katy.
"I heard a gentleman at the door of the American House, who knew the game, tell another that it
was a counterfeit;" and she proceeded to give all
the particulars of the two tricks she had seen Ann
play off.
" I shall have to take you to the lock-up, my little
joker," said the policeman.
"0, dear me! " cried Ann, and this time she was
in earnest.
"Please don't do that!" said Katy, who had not
foreseen this, consequence of the game.
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"Please don't; she has a father and mother, and
I dare say they will feel very bad about it. I
promise you she shall never do it again," pleaded
Katy.
" I must do my duty. This candy trick has been
played a good many times, and has become a nuisance. I must lock her up."
"Save me, Katy, save me! " begged Ann, terrified
at the thought of being put in a prison or some
dreadful place.
"Why do you wish to save her?" interposed the
gentleman.
"Because her mother will feel so bad; and she
will lay it all to me."'
Katy told him all about herself and about Ann,
and he was so much interested in her, that he joined
in pleading for Ann's release. The officer was firm
for a long time, but when the gentleman declared
that he should not appear against her, he decided to
let her go, to Katy's great delight, as well as to
Ann's.
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another trick upon  travellers; but Katy was firm in
her purpose not to supply her with any more candy.
She did not dare to resent Katy's'interference, for
the terrors of the lock-up were still in her mind, and
she did not know but that Katy might have her arrested and punished for what she had done, if she
attempted to retaliate upon her.'Katy was shocked at the wickedness of her companion; and, as they walked home together, she
tried to make her see the enormity of her offence,
and give her some better views of her duty to her
fellow-beings. Ann heard her in silence and with
humility, and the little moralist hoped the event
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214          POOR AND PROUD, OR
CHAPTER XVII.
THE SUN SETS, AND THE NIGHT COMES ON.
HAVING recorded the steps by which Katy had
carried forward her noxi flourishing trade, from the
dawn of the idea up to the height of its prosperity,
we may pass over a year with only a brief note of its
principal incidents.
My young readers may have supposed that Katy
and her mother had gathered a great deal of money
in the candy trade. It was not so, for as the business increased, and Katy's labors as a saleswoman
were withdrawn, the expenses increased, and the
profits were proportionally less. And then, neither
Mrs. Redburn nor her daughter had a faculty for
saving up much money; so that, though they made
considerable, their prosperity permitted new demands
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which had been sacrificed under the pressure of actual
want; they lived better than they had lived before;
and Mrs. Redburn had availed herself of the services
of a distinguished physician, whose attendance had
cost a large sum. It is true they lived very well,
much better than people in their circumstances ought
to have lived.  Therefore, notwithstanding their
prosperity, they had saved4 but a small sum from the
proceeds of the year's business.  They were not
rich; they were simply in comfortable circumstances,
which, considering their situation when Katy commenced business, was quite enough to render them
very thankful to the Giver of allgood for the rich
blessings he had bestowed upon them.
These were not, all temporal blessings; if they
had been, their success would only have been partial
and temporary, their prosperity only an outward
seeming, which, in the truest and highest sense, can
hardly be called prosperity; no more than if a man
should gain a thousand dollars worth of land, and
lose a thousand dollars worth of stocks or merchandise. Both Katy and her mother, while they were
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"laying up treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt." Want had taught them its
hard lesson, and they had come out of the fiery furnace of affliction the wiser and the better for the
severe ordeal. The mother's foolish pride had been
rebuked, the daughter's true pride had been encouraged. They had learned that faith and patience
are real supports in the hour of trial. The-perilous
life in the streets which Katy had led for a time, exposed her to a thousand temptations; and she and
her mother thanked God that they had made her
stronger and truer, as temptation resisted always
makes-the soul. That year of experience had given
Katy a character; it expanded her views of life, and
placed her in a situation where she was early called
upon to decide between the right and the wrong;
when she was required to select her path for life.
She had chosen the good way, as Ann Grippen had
chosen the evil way.
I do not mean to say her character was formed, or
that having chosen to be good, she could not afterwards be evil. But the great experiences of life,
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been forced upon her while still a child; and nobly
and truly had she taken up and borne the burden
imposed upon her. As a child she had done the
duties of the full-grown woman, and she had done
them well. She had been faithful to herself.
Providence kindly ordains that the child shall
serve a long apprenticeship before it is called upon to
think and act for itself. Katy had anticipated the
period of maturity, and with the untried soul of a
child, had been compelled to grapple with its duties
and its temptations. As her opportunities to be
good and do good were increased, so was her liability to do wrong. She had her faults, great, grave
faults, but she was truly endeavoring to overcome them.
Tommy' had returned from  his voyage to Liverpool, and joyous was the meeting between Katy and
her sailor friend. It took him all the evenings for a
week to tell the story of his voyage, to which Mrs.
1{edburn and her daughter. listened with much satisfaction. He remained at home two months, and
then departed on a voyage to the East Indies.
Master Simon Sneed, after Katy's attempt to serve
him, did not tell her many more large stories about
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218          POOR AND PROUD, OR
himself, for she understood him now, and knew that
he was not half so great a man as he pretended to
be. In the spring he obtained a situation in a small
retail store, where there was not a very wide field for
the exercise of his splendid abilities. He had been
idle all winter, and when he lamented his misfortunes to Katy, she always asked why he did not
sell candy. Once she suggested that he should learn
a trade, to which Master Simon always replied, that
he was born to be a gentleman, and wohld never voluntarily demean himself by pursuing a degrading
occupation.  He was above being a mechanic, and he
would never soil his hands with dirty work. Katy
began to think he was really a fool.  She could
scarcely think him "poor and proud;" he was only
poor and foolish.
At the close of Katy's first year in trade, a great
misfortune befell her in the loss of Mrs. Colvin, her
able assistant in the manufacturing department of
the business. A worthy man, who owned a little
farm in the country, tempted her with an offer of
marriage, and her conscience (I suppose) would not
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far as the duties and responsibilities of life were concerned, was still a child in her feelings and affections,
and cried bitterly when they parted. The good woman
was scarcely less affected, and made Katy and her
mother promise an early visit to her farm.
Katy's sorrow at parting with her beloved friend
was not the only, nor, perhaps, the most important,
result of Mrs. Colvin's departure, for they were deprived of the assistance of the chief candy-puller.
Katy tried to secure another woman for this labor,
but could not find a person who would serve her in
this capacity. After a vain search, Mrs. Redburn
thought she was able to do the work herself, for her
health seemed to be pretty well established. Perhaps, she reasoned, it was quite as well that Mrs.
Colvin had gone, for if she could pull the candy herself, it would save from two to three dollars a week.
Katy would not consent that she should do it
alone, but agreed to divide the labor between them.
-The quantity manufactured every day was so great
that the toil of making it fell heavily upon them; but
as Mrs. Redburn did not complain, Katy- was too
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pained her severely every night after the work was
done.
This toil weighed heavily on Katy's rather feeble
constitution; but all her mother could say would not
induce her to abandon the work. For a month they
got along tolerably well, and, perhaps, no evil consequences would have followed this hard labor, if
every thing else had gone well with Katy. The girls
who sold the candy had for some time caused her
considerable trouble and anxiety. Very often they
lost-their money, or pretended to do so, and three or
four of them had resorted to Ann Grippen's plan of
playing "tricks upon travellers."  She had to discharge a great many, and to accept the services of
those whom she did not know, and who, by various
means, contrived to cheat her out of the money received from the sales of the candy. These things
annoyed.her very much, and she cast about her for a
remedy.
One day, three girls, each of whom had been sup*plied with half a dollar's worth of candy, did not appear to account for the proceeds. Here was a loss
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common trials of business; but Katy, who was so
scrupulously honest and just herself, was severely
tried by them. It was not the loss of the money
only, but the dishonesty of the girls that annoyed her.
"What shall be done, mother?' said she, anxiously, when the loss was understood to be actual.
"I can't find these girls. I don't even know their
names."
"Probably, if you did find them, you could not
obtain any satisfaction."
" I went to see one girl's mother the other day, you
know, and she drove me out of her house, and called
me vile names."
"I was thinking of a plan," continued Mrs. Redburn, "though I don't know as it would work well."
"Any thing would work better than this being
constantly cheated; for it is really worse for the girls
than it is for us. I have often felt that those who
cheat us are the real sufferers. I would a good deal
rather be cheated than cheat myself."
"You are right, Katy; and that is a Christian view
of the subject. I suppose we are in duty bound to
keep these girls as honest as we can."
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"What is your plan, mother?" asked Katy.
"We will sell them the candy, instead of employing them to sell it for us."
"But they won't pay us."
"Let them pay in advance. We will sell them the
randy at eight cents a dozen. Any girl, who wants
bwo dozen sticks, must bring sixteen cents."
" I don't believe we can find any customers."
"We can try it. For a time, probably, the sales
will be less."
"Very well, mother, we will try it; for I think it
would be better to keep them honest, even if we
don't sell more than half so much."
When the girls appeared the next morning to receive their stock, it was announced to them that the
business would thereafter be conducted on a different
basis; that they must pay for their candy before they
got it, and thus become independent merchants themselves. Most of them were unable to comply with
the terms, and begged hard to be trusted one day
more. Katy was firm, for she saw that they would
be more likely to be dishonest that day, to revenge
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The girls were not all dishonest, or even a majority of them, but the plan must be applied to all,
Most of them went home, therefore, and shortly returned with money enough to buy one or two dozen
sticks. As Mrs. Redburn had predicted, the effect
of the adoption of the new plan was unfavorable for
a few days. The obstinate ones would not buy, hoping to make the wholesale dealer go back to the old
plan. After a week or two, however, they began to
come back, one by one, and the trade rather increased
than diminished; for many of the young merchants,
having the responsibility of selling out all the stock
imposed upon them, used greater exertion than before, and strong efforts almost always produced some
success.
Thus the business went on very prosperously,
though Mrs. Redburn and Katy were obliged to work
very hard — so hard that the former began to experience a return of her old complaint. The affectionate
daughter was frightened when she first mentioned
the fact, and begged her not to work any more.
"What shall I do, Katy?" asked she, with a
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224          POOR AND PROUD, OR
"Let me make the candy," replied Katy. "I am
strong enough."
"No, Katy, you are not. I am afraid you are injuring yourself now."
"I am sure I am not. But I can't bear to think
of Your being sick again."
" We must look out for our health, Katy; that
ought to be the first of our earthly considerations."
"We ought, indeed, mother; so, if you please, I
shall not let you pull any more candy."'Shall I save my own health at the expense of
yours?"
"  shall get along very well. I feel very strong."
"You are not very strong; I have reproached myself a great many times for letting you do so much
as you have.. I have felt the pain for a fortnight, and
though I greatly fear I shall have a return of my
complaint, I cannot let you do all this work. WVe
are neither of us fit to perform such hard labor, and
both of us must be relieved from it. I shall go out
to-morrow, and make- a business of finding a person
to do this work for us."
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was odd, queer, strange work, as the women called it,
and they didn't want to do any thing of the kind.
Katy proposed that they should employ a man; and
when they finally found one, he was a stupid fellow,
and they much preferred to do the work themselves,
to seeing him daub the house all over with the candy,
and leave it half done.
They persevered, however, in their efforts to find a
person, and after trying'half a dozen, who could not
or would not do the work, they gave it up in despair.
But not long were they permitted to struggle with
the severe toil which their circumstances imposed
upon them; for on the night before Christ,::when
a large demand for candy was anticipated, and both
of them had worked very hard, Mrs. Redburn fainted
and fell upon the floor. It was in this manner that
she had been taken at the commencement of her
former long sickness, and to Katy the future looked
dark and gloomy. But she did not give up. She
applied herself, with all her energies, to the restoration of her mother; and when she was partially conscious, she attempted to conduct her to the bed.
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226          POOR AND PROUD, OR
Katy was obliged to call in Mrs. Howard to assist
her.
Mrs. Redburn suffered the most severe and racking
pains through the night, and at about twelve o'clock,
Katy went to Mr. Sneed's house, and calling up
Simon, begged him to go for a doctor. But the physician's art seemed powerless to soothe her. All night
long the devoted daughter, like an angel of mercy,
hovered around the bed, and did all she could in vain
attempts to ease the sufferer's pain.
Poor Katy! The sun of prosperity had set, and
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CHAPTER XVIII.
KATY STRUGGLES BRAVELY THROUGH A SERIES OF
TRIALS.
THE morning sun rose clear and bright, casting a
flood of light into the chamber of the sick mother,
watched over by the beloved child. It was Christmas, and all over the Christian world arose paeans of
praise for the birth of the Saviour. The sufferer was
conscious of the fact, and a sweet smile played upon
her lips, as she thought of Jesus - that he had lived
and died for her. Pain, that could rack the bones
and triumph over the weak body, was powerless to
subdue the loving, trusting spirit, that reposed gently
on Him, who has invited the weary to a present and
an eternal rest.
"Katy," said Mrs. Redburn, in a faint whisper.
"I am here, mother," replied she, bending over her,
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228          POOR AND PROUD, OR
"Is the hymn book on the table?"' Here it is, mother."
"Won't you read me a hymn?"
"What shall I read? " asked Katy, who could with
difficulty keep back the flood of tears that rose up
from her heart.
"'Come, said Jesus' sacred voice.'"
Katy opened the book to the beautiful hymn commenicing with this line, and in a voice broken by the
emotions she could not wholly control, she read it
through. The smile that played on her mother's face
showed how deep and pure was the consolation she
derived from the touching poetry. She could smile
while racking pains tortured her frame, while her
frail body seemed hardly to retain its hold upon mortality. How blessed the hope that pours its heavenly
balm into the wounds of the sufferer!
Poor Katy was painfully impressed by the appearance and conduct of her mother. She had never
before seen her so calm and resigned to those dreadful siifferings.  She had heard her complain and
minurmur at her hard lot, and wonder why she should
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ing event, which she dared not define and call by its
name, was about to happen.  She dared not think of
the future, and she wondered that her mother could
be so calm while she endured so much.
"Katy," said Mrs. Redburn, after the long silence
that followed the reading of the hymn, "I feel very
weak and ill. Take my hand."
"You are burning up with fever!" exclaimed
Katy, as she clasped the hand, and felt the burning,
throbbing brow of her mother.
"I am; but do not be alarmed, Katy.  Can you
be very calm?"
"I will try."
"For I feel very sick, but I am very happy. I can
almost believe that the triumph of faith has already
be'gun in my soul.  The world looks very dim to me."
"' Nay, mother, don't say so."
"I only mean that as heaven seems nearer, my
hold upon earth is less strong.  You must be very
resolute, iny child, for I feel as though the sands of
life were fast ebbing out; and that in a few hours
more I shall be' where the wicked cease from troubliig, and the weary are at rest.' If it were not for
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leaving you, Katy, I could wish to bid farewell to
earth, and go up to my eternal home, even on this
bright, beautiful Christmas day."
" O mother! " sobbed Katy, unable any longer to
restrain the expression of her emotion.
"Do not weep, my child; I may be mistaken; yet
I feel as though God was about to end my sufferings
on earth, and I am willing to go."
"0, no, mother! It cannot be!" exclaimed Katy,
gazing earnestly, through her tearful eyes, upon the
pale but flushed cheek of the patient sufferer.
" I only wish to prepare you for the worst. I may
get well; and for your sake, I have prayed that I
may. And, Katy, I have never before felt prepared
to leave this world, full of trial and sorrow as it has
been to me. Whatever of woe, and want, and disappointment it has been my lot to confront, has been
a blessing in disguise. I feel like a new creature. I
feel reconciled to live or die, as God ordains."
"Do not look on the dark side, mother," sobbed
Katy.
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bright to me now. Life looks bright, and I feel that
I could be happy for many years with you, for you
have been a good daughter. Death looks bright, for
it is the portal of the temple eternal in the heavens,
where is joy unspeakable. I am too weak to talk
more, Katy; you may read me a chapter from the
New Testament."'
The devoted daughter obeyed this request, and
she had scarcely finished the chapter before the girls
came for their candy. She was unwilling to leave
her mother alone even for a minute; so she sent one
of them over to request the attendance of Mrs.
Howard, and the good woman took her place by the
side of the sufferer.
Katy, scarcely conscious what she was doing, - for
her heart was with her mother, - supplied each girl
with her stock of candy, and received the money
for it.
"You need not come to-morrow," she said to
them, as they were departing.
"Not come!" exclaimed several. "What shall
we do for candy?"
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"I get my living by selling candy," said one of
them. "I shan't have any thing to pay my board if
I can't sell candy."
" Poor Mary! I am sorry for you."
This girl was an orphan whose mother had recently died, and she had taken up the business of
selling candy, which enabled her to pay fifty cents a
week for her board, at the house of a poor widow.
Katy knew her history, and felt very sad as she
thought of her being deprived of the means of
support.
" I don't know what I shall do," sighed Mary.' I have to take care of my mother now, and shall
not have time to make candy," said Katy.
" Do you mean to give up for good?" asked one
of them.
" I don't know."
This question suggested some painful reflections
to Katy. If they stopped making candy, she and
her mother, as well as orphan Mary, would be deprived of the means of support. She trembled as
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ten dollars in the house, for they had but a short
time before paid for their winter's coal, and at considerable expense largely replenished their wardrobes.
The rent would be due in a week, and it would require more than half they had to pay it.
Katy was appalled as she thought of the low state
of their purse, and dreaded lest some fearful calamity
might again overtake them. It was plain to her that
she could not give up her business, even for a week,
without the danger of being again reduced to actual
want. She therefore reversed her decision, and told
the' girls they might come as usual the next day.
When they had gone she shed a few bitter tears
at the necessity which the circumstances imposed
upon her of working while her heart revolted at the
idea of being any where but at the bedside of her
sick mother. Then she lamented that they had not
dispensed with many articles of luxury while they
had plenty of money, and saved more of it for such
a sad time as the present. But it was of no use to
repine; she had only to make the best of her situation.
Amid all these discouragements came a bright ray
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of sunshine -the brightest that could possibly have
shone on the pathway of the weeping daughter.
Early in the forenoon came the physician, who
carefully examined his patient, speaking cheerfully
and kindly to her all the while.  The sufferer
watched his expression very narrowly, as he bent
over her and questioned her in regard to her pains.
Hle looked very serious, which Mrs. Redburn interpreted as unfavorable to her recovery, not considering that he was engaged in profound thought, and
therefore his, countenance would naturally wear an
earnest look. Presently she sent Katy to get her
some. drink, not because she wanted it, but to procure her absence for a short time.
"Do you think I shall get well?" asked Mrs.
Redburn, as soon as the door closed behind Katy.
"A person who is very sick is, of course, always
in danger, which may be more or.less imminent," replied the doctor, with professional indirectness.
"I beg of you, doctor, do not conceal from me my
true situation."
"I cannot foresee the result, my good woman."
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"Certainly there is."
"Tell me, I implore you, what you think of my
case," pleaded the sufferer, in feeble tones. "I felt
this morning that my end was very near."
"O, no; it is not so bad as that. I should say
you had as many as five chances in ten to be on your
feet in a fortnight."
"Do you think so?"
" I do not regard your case as a critical one."
"I wish you had told me so last night. It would
have saved my poor child a very bitter pang."
" I was not aware that you thought yourself alarmingly sick, or I certainly should; for such an opinion
on your part would do more to bring about a fatal
result than could be counteracted by the most skilful
treatment. A physician does not hold the issues of
life and death; he can only assist nature, as the
patient may by a cheerful view of his case. This is
not your old complaint; you have taken cold, and
have considerable fever; but I think it is a very
hopeful. case."
The return of Katy interrupted the conversation;
but the doctor's opinion was immediately imparted to
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"I was low-spirited this morning, Katy," said
Mrs. Redburn, when the physician had gone. "I
really felt as though my end was rapidly approaching. I am sorry I mentioned my thoughts to you."
"It was all for the best, I suppose," replied Katy.
But Mrs. Redburn was very sick; and even now
the disease might have a fatal termination. The best
of care would be required to restore her to health,
and Katy was very anxious. Her mother was still
suffering the most acute pain.
The doctor had left a prescription, and Katy was
again obliged to call in Mrs. Howard while she went
to the apothecary's to procure it; but the good
woman declared she was glad to come, and would
bring her work and stay all the forenoon.  The
medicine, when obtained, to some extent relieved the
sufferer's pain.
As her presence was not required in the chamber,
Katy went down stairs to what she called the candy
room. She had an hour or two to spare, and she put
on the kettle with the intention of making a part of
the next day's candy. She was nearly worn out by
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nard work; but weak and weary as she felt, her
spirit was still earnest, and she resolutely commenced
her labors.
At noon she had made half the quantity required.
Mrs. Howard was then obliged to go home, and
attend to her own family, for she had two children
besides Tommy, who had not yet returned from the
East Indies. Mrs. Redburn was very restless during
the afternoon, and could not be left alone for more
than a short time at once. Mrs. Howard had promised to come again in the evening, and make the rest
of the candy; but Charley came home from school
quite sick, seemingly threatened with the scarlet
fever, so that she could not keep her promise. Mrs.
Sneed, however, dropped in, and consented to remain
for two hours, which enabled Katy to make the rest
of the candy.
By this time the poor girl was completely worn
out. Her resolute will, even, could no longer impart
its strength to the body. Her mother worried sadly:about her, and finally induced her to lie down on the
bed by her side, on condition that she should be
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a few hours sleep during the night; but these severe
labors were a fearful task to be imposed upon a mere
child.
The next day Mrs. Redburn, who could not fail to
observe Katy's pale face and sunken eye, fretted so
much about her that she was obliged to promise she
would not attempt to make any more candy. Mrs.
Howard's son was still very sick, so that she was unable to render much assistance. The rest of the
neighbors, though kindly disposed, had their own
families to care for, and could do very little for
others.
With what slight aid her friends could afford, Katy
struggled -through a week, when Dr. Flynch appeared,
and demanded the rent. There was but little more
than money enough left to pay it, but Katy would
not ask him for any indulgence, and paid him in full.
In a few days more the purse was empty. Katy's
most dreaded hour had come. She had no money,
and almost every day some new thing was required
for her mother. But this time she had friends, and
she determined to use them, as all true friends wish
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considerable debate with herself, she decided to apply to Mrs. Gordon for a loan of twenty dollars. She
was still poor and proud, and she could not endure
the thought of asking a loan, which might be regarded as a gift, or which, by her own inability to
pay it, might virtually become such; therefore she
proposed to present her father's silver watch as
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240          POOR AND PROUD, OR
CHAPTER  XIX.
KATY RESORTS TO A LOAN.
JKATY was not at all pleased with the mission
which her duty seemed to impose upon her. Again
she felt the crushing weight of poverty, and pride rose
up to throw obstacles in her path.  She was a child
of twelve, and to ask a loan of twenty dollars, though
she offered sufficient security for the payment of the
debt, seemed like demanding a great deal of her
friends - like inviting them to repose a vast amount
of confidence in her ability and honesty.  They
would not want the watch; it would be of no value
to them; and the morw she considered the matter,
the more like an act of charity appeared the favor she
was about to ask.
More than once on her way to Temple Street did
she stop short, resolved to get the money of some
other person - the grocer, Mr. Sneed, or even of a




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pawnbroker; but as often she rebuked the pride that
tormented her like a demon, and went forward again.
She stood some time at Mrs. Gordon's door before
she had the resolution to ring the bell.
"What right have I to be so proud?" said she,
grasping the bell handle. "I must get this money,
or my mother may suffer." 
She rang with a force that must have astonished
Michael, and led him to think some extraordinary
character had arrived; for he ran to the door at full
speed, and burst out into a violent fit of laughter,
when he saw no one but the little candy merchant.
" Good morning to you, Katy. Are you nervous
this morning?" said he.
" Good morning, Michael. I am not very nervous."
"I thought you would pull down the bell," he
added, good naturedly.
"I didn't mean to, Michael; I hope you will excuse me if I did any harm."
"Not a bit of harm; but you're looking as sober
as a deacon. What ails you, Katy? "
"I feel very sad, Michael; for my mother is very
sick, and I don't know as she will ever get well."
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-" Indeed? I'm  sorry to hear that of her;" and
Michael,'whatever' he felt, looked -very much concerned about Mrs. Redburn's health.
" Is Mrs. Gordon at home?"
" She isn't."
"Is Miss Grace?"
"Neither of them; they went to Baltimore ten
days ago; but I am expecting them back every day."
Katy's heart sunk within her; for now that Mrs.
Gordon was not; at hand, she did not feel like asking
any other person; and if the case had not been
urgent, she would have been satisfied to return home,
and regard the lady's absence as a sufficient excuse
for not procuring the money.
"You want to see her very much? " asked Michael.
"Very much, indeed."
"Can I be of any service to you?"
"No, Michael."
"Perhaps I can, Katy."
"No, I'm much obliged to you."
"If it's any thing in the house you want,- I can
get it for you."
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" If it's any nice preserve or jelly you want, just
say the word, and I'll bring it to: you at once."
"I do not want any thing of that kind. Do you
think Mrs. Gordon will return by to-morrow? "
"I thought she would be here yesterday, and she
may come to-night."
"Very well; I will, perhaps, call again to-mor-'row" and she turned to leave.
"I'll tell Mrs. Gordon you came. Stop a minute,
Katy. Won't you tell me what you want?"
"-I would rather not, Michael; but I will come
again to-morrow."
"See here, Katy; may be you're short of money.
If you are, I have a matter of three hundred dollars
in the Savings Bank; and you may be sure you shall
have every cent of it if you want it."
This was a very liberal offer, though.it is probable
he did not think she would want any considerable
portion of it, or that she could even comprehend the
meaning of so large a sum. Katy was sorely tempted
to negotiate with him for the loan; but she was not
sure that it would be proper to borrow money of the
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244          PoOR AND PROUD, OR
"-I thank you, Michael; you are very kind, but I
think I would rather see Mrs. Gordon."
"I have a matter of five or six dollars in my pocket
now; and if that'll be of any service to you, take it
and welcome."
Katy stopped to think. A few dollars would be
all that she needed before the return of Mrs. Gordon;
and yet she did not feel like accepting it. What
would the lady say on her return, when told that she
had borrowed money of her servant?  Yet the servant had a kind heart, and really desired to serve her.
Was it not pride that prevented her from accepting
his offer? Did she not feel too proud to place herself
under obligations to the servant? She felt rebuked
at her presumption; for what right had she to make
such distinctions?  If she had been a lady, like Mrs.
Gordon, she might have been excusable for cherishing such a pride; but she was a poor girl; she was
actually in want.
"Michael, you are so good, that I will tell you my
story," said she, conquering her repugnance.
" Just come in the house, then;" and he led her
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   245
mistress, the lord and master of the mansion, and
feeling quite at home in thatposition.
In a few words she explained to him her situation,
though her rebellious pride caused her to paint the
picture in somewhat brighter colors than the truth
would fully justify.  She stated her intention to
borrow twenty dollars of Mrs. Gordon, and offer her
the watch as security, at the same time exhibiting
the cherished treasure.
" Now, Michael, if you will lend me three dollars
till Mrs. Gordon returns, I will pay you then, for I
know she will let me have the money; or at least let
me have enough to pay you," continued she, when
she had finished her narrative.
"Indeed I will, Katy!" exclaimed he, promptly
pulling out his wallet. "And if you will come at
this time to-morrow, you shall have the whole twenty
dollars."
"Thank you, Michael."
"There's six dollars; take it, Katy, and my blessing with it."
"Only three dollars, Michael," replied Katy,,Irmly.
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246         PrOR AND PROUD, OR
Michael insisted, but all his persuasion would not
induce her to accept more than the sum she had
mentioned, and he was reluctantly compelled to yield
the point.
"Here is the watch, Michael; you shall keep that
till I pay you."
" Is it me! " exclaimed he, springing to his feet,
with an expression very like indignation on his
countenance. "Sure, you don't think I'd take the
watch!"
"Why not you as well as Mrs. Gordon?" asked
Katy.
"She didn't take it," replied Michael, triumphantly. "You couldn't make her take it, if you try a
month. Don't I know 1Mrs. Gordon?"
"But please to take it; I should feel much better
if you would."
"Bad luck to me if I do! I wouldn't take it
to save my neck from the gallows. Where's my
Irish heart? Did I leave it at home, or did I bring
it with me to America?"
"If you will not take it, Michael    "
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"If you won't, I will say no more about it,"
replied Katy, as she returned the watch to her pocket.
" You have got a very kind heart, and I shall never
forget you as long as I live."
Katy, after glancing at the portrait of the roguish
lady that hung in the room, took leave of Michael,
and hastened home. On her way, she could not
banish the generous servant from her mind. She
could not understand why he should be so much
interested in her as to offer the use of all he had;
and she was obliged to attribute it all to the impulses of a kind heart. If she had been a little
older, she might have concluded that the old maxim,
slightly altered, would explain the reason; "Like
mistress, like man;" that the atmosphere of kindness and charity that pervaded the house had inspired
even the servants.
" Where have you been, Katy?" asked Mrs. Redburn, as she entered the sick chamber, and Mrs.
Sneed hastened home.
"I have been to Mrs. Gordon."
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248          POOR AND PROUD, OR
make her mother feel very unhappy to know that she
had borrowed money of Mrs. Gordon's servant.
" O, I went up to see her," replied Katy.
"No matter, if you don't like to tell me," faintly
replied Mrs. Redburn.
" I will tell you, mother," answered Katy, stung by
the gentle rebuke contained in her mother's words.
"I suppose our money is all gone," sighed the
sick woman.
"No, mother; see here! I have three dollars," and
Katy pulled out her porte-monnaie, anxious to save
her even a moment of uneasiness.
But in taking out the money she exhibited the
watch also, which at once excited Mrs. Redburn's
curiosity.
"What have you been doing with that, Katy?"
she asked. " Ah, I fear I was right. We have no
money! Our business is gone! Alas, we have nothing to hope for!"
" 0, no, mother, it is not half so bad as that!"
exclaimed Katy. "I went up to Mrs. Gordon for
the purpose of borrowing twenty dollars of her; I
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THEE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   249
ask her to keep the watch till it was paid. That's
all, mother."
"And she refused?"
"No; she was not at home."
"But your money is not all gone?"
Katy wanted to say it was not, but her conscience
would not let her practise deception.  She had
the three dollars which she had just borrowed of
Michael, and that was not all gone.  But this was
not the question her mother asked, and it would be
a lie to say the money was riot all gone, when she
fully understood the meaning of the question. Perhaps it was for her mother's good to deceive her;
but she had been taught to feel that she had no right
to do evil that good might follow.
" It was all gone, but I borrowed three dollars,"
she replied, after a little hesitation.
"Of whom?"
"Of Michael."
"Who is he?"
"Mrs. Gordon's man."
"O Katy! How could you do so?" sighed Mrs.
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250         rPOO  AND PROUD, OR
"I couldn't help it, mother. He would make me
take it;" and she gave all the particulars of her
interview with Michael, and reviewed the considerations which had induced her to accept the loan.
" Perhaps you are right, Katy. My pride would
not have let me borrow of a servant; but it is
wicked for me to cherish such a pride: I try very
hard to banish it."
" Don't talk any more now, mother. We are too
poor to be too proud to accept a favor of one who is
in a humble station," replied Katy.
" I don't know what will become of us," said Mrs.
Redburn, as she turned her head away to hide the
tears that flooded her eyes.
Katy took up the Bible that lay by the bed side,
and turning to the twenty-third psalm, she read,
"The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He
maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth
me beside the still waters."
"Go on, Katy; those words are real comfort,"
said Mrs. Redburn, drying her tears. "I know it is
wicked for me to repine."
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others, which produced a healing influence upon her
mother's mind, and she seemed to forget that the
purse was empty, and that they had placed themselves under obligations to a servant.
The sufferer rested much better than usual that
night, and Katy was permitted to sleep the greater
part of the time — a boon which her exhausted
frame very much needed. About ten o'clock in- the
forenoon, Michael paid her a visit, to inform her that
Mrs. Gordon had just arrived; and that, when he
mentioned her case, she had sent him down to request her immediate attendance; and that his mistress would have come herself, only she was so much
fatigued by her journey.
Katy could not leave then, for she had no one to
stay with her mother; but Mrs. Sneed could come
in an hour. Michael hastened home with the intelligence that Mrs, Redburn was better, and Katy soon
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252         rOOR AND PROUD, OR
CHAPTER XX.
MRS. GORDON FEELS FAINT, AND KATY ENTERS A
NEW SPHERE.
ON her arrival at Temple Street, Katy was promptly
admitted by Michael, and shown in the sitting room,
where Mrs. Gordon and Grace were waiting for her.
"I was very sorry to hear that your mother is sick,
Katy," said the former; "and I should have paid
you a visit, instead of sending for you, if I had not
been so much exhausted by my journey from Baltimore."'" You are very kind, ma'am."
"Did Dr. Flynch call upon you at the first of the
month? "
"Yes, ma'am; and we paicdthe rent as usual," replied Katy.
"I am sorry you did so, Katy; you should have
told him that you were not in a condition to pay the
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THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN.   253
"I couldn't tell him so, he is so cold and cruel."
"I think you misjudge him, for he has a really
kind heart, and would not have distressed you for all
the world. Besides, I told him he need not collect
your rent any time when you did not feel ready to
pay it. I hope he gave you no trouble?"
"No, ma'am; I didn't give him a chance, for I
paid him as soon as he demanded it; though it took
nearly all the money we had. I hope you will excuse
me, ma'am, but I haven't liked him since the trouble
we had a year ago, when he accused my dear mother
of telling a lie."
"Perhaps he was hasty."
"I forgive him, ma'am; but I can't help thinking
he is a very wicked man," answered Katy, with considerable emphasis.
"I hope not so bad as that; for I am sure, if you
had told him it was not convenient for you to pay the
rent, he would not have insisted.  But you want
some assistance, Katy?"
"Yes, ma'am; that is, I want to borrow some
money," replied Katy, blushing deeply.
"That's just like you," interposed Grace, laughing.
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254          POOR AND PROUD, OR
"I suppose you will want to give your note this
time."
" I don't care about giving a note, but I' mean to
pay the money back again, every cent of it."
"And the interest too, I suppose."
"Yes," said Katy, though she had not a very clear
idea of the value of money, as an article of merchandise.
"Don't distress her, Grace; you forget that her
mother is very sick, and she cannot feel like listening
to your pleasantries," said Mrs. Gordon.
" Forgive me, Katy," replied Grace, tenderly.
Katy burst into tears, though she could not exactly
tell why. She was overcome with emotion as the
beautiful young lady took her hand, and looked so
sorrowfully in her face. She was not used to so much
kindness, so much sympathy, so much love; for it
seemed as though both Grace and her mother loved
her - that their hearts beat with hers.
"Don't cry, Katy; I am sorry I said a word,"
pleaded Grace. "I would not have hurt your feelings for all the world."
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to me that I could not help crying. I suppose I am
very silly."
" No, you are not, Katy; now dry up your tears,
and tell us all about it," added Mrs. Gordon, in soothing tones. "How long has your mother been sick?"
" Almost two weeks."
" What ails her?"
"She has got a fever; but she is much better today. The doctor says she hasn't got it very bad;
but she has been very sick, I think."
"Who takes care of her?"
"I do, ma'am."
"You! She must need a great deal of attention.
But who takes care of her at night?"
" I do, ma'am. I have been up a great deal every
night."
"Poor child! It is enough to wear you out."
I wouldn't mind it at all, if I had nothing else to
trouble me."
"What other troubles have you?"
" I- can't make any candy now, and haven't made
any for nearly a fortnight; so that we have no money
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256         POOR AND PROUD, OR
our winter clothing and fuel. It worries me very
much, for we had plenty of money before mother was
taken sick."
"I hope you haven't wanted for any thing."
"NNo, ma'am; for when my purse was empty, I
came up here, only yesterday, to borrow some of you,
~if you would please to lend it to me."
" Certainly I will, my child. I am very glad you
came."
"Michael would make me tell what I wanted, and
then he let me have three dollars, and offered to let
me have as much as I wanted. I didn't know as you
would like it if I borrowed money of your servant."
" You did just right; and I am glad that Michael
has a kind heart. Now, how much money do you
want?"
"I thought I would ask you to lend me twenty
dollars; and just as soon, after mother gets well, as
I can gather the money together, I will pay youand the interest," she added, glancing at Grace.
"Now, Katy, that is too bad! " exclaimed Grace,
catching her by the hand, while a tear started from
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THEE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBIlRN.   257
"I know you didn't; but I don't know much about
such things, and thought likely it was right for us to
pay interest if we borrowed money."
"I should be very glad to give you twenty dollars,
Katy, if you would only let me; for I am rich, as
well as mother; and I certainly should not think of
taking interest."
"We will say no more about that," interrupted
Mrs. Gordon. "I will let you have the money with
the greatest pleasure, for I know you will make
good use of it."
" I will, indeed."
"And you must promise me that you will not distress yourself to pay it again," continued the kind
lady, as she took out her purse.
"I will not distress myself, but I will pay it as
soon as I can."
" You must not be too proud."
" No, ma'am; but just proud enough."
"Yes, that's it," replied Mrs. Gordon, smiling.
"Pride is a very good thing in its place. It keeps
people from being mean and wicked sometimes."
"That's true pride," added Katy.
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"Yes; for there is a false pride, which makes people very silly and vain; which keeps them from doing
their duty very often. You have none of this kind
of pride."
"I hope not."
" Your friend Simon Sneed, whom the mayor spoke
to me about, affords us a very good example of the
folly of cherishing false pride. Where is Simon now?"
"He keeps in a store in Washington Street; he is
a salesman now, and I don't think he is so foolish as
he was."
"Perhaps the lesson he learned did him  good.
But I am keeping you away from your mother, Katy.
Who stays with her while you are away?"
" Mrs. Sneed - Simon's mother."
"Then she is a good woman."
"And Simon is very kind; he has done a great
many things for me, and I hope I shall be able to dp
something for him one of these days."
"That's right, Katy. Think well of your friends,
though others speak ill of them," said Grace. "Ah,
there comes the carriage. I am going home with
you, Katy, to see your mother."9




THE FORTUNES OF RATY REDBURN.   259'You are very kind, Miss Grace."
"Here is the money," added Mrs. Gordon, handing her a little roll of bills.
"Thank you, ma'am," replied Katy, as she placed
the money in her porte-monnaie. " But - "
Here she came to a full stop,'and her face was as
crimson as a blush rose; but she took out the silver
watch, and approached Mrs. Gordon.
"What were you going to say, Katy? "
"I brought this watch up," stammered she.
"What for?"
"You know I am a poor girl; my mother is a poor
woman, and we didn't want you to think you were
giving us the money, for we are very proud; that is,
my mother is very proud, and so am I; and  "
Here Katy drew a long breath, and came to a
full stop again, unable to say what she wanted to
say.' If you want any thing else, Katy, don't hesitate
to mention it; for I will not do any thing to mortify
your pride, even if it is unreasonable," said Mrs.
Gordon. " I understand you perfectly; the twenty
dollars is not a gift, but a loan."




260           POOR AND PROUD, OR
"(Yes, ma'am; but if we should never be able to
pay it, then it would be a gift."
"No, it wouldn't."
"I think so; and so I brought this watch, which
you will please to take as security for the payment of
the loan," said Katy, much confused, as she offered
the watch to Mrs. Gordon.
" My dear child, I do not want any security. Your
word is just as good as your bond."
"But I would rather you would take it.  My
mother is prouder than I am, for she wasn't always
as poor as she is now."
Katy suddenly clapped her hand over her mouth,
when she recollected that this was a forbidden
topic.
" Some time you may tell me all about your mother;
and I will call and see her to-morrow, and help you
take care of her."
"Please to take the watch, ma'am."
"If you very much desire it, I shall do so, though
I cannot take it as security. Is this the watch you
carried to the pawnbroker r " said Mrs. Gordon as she
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"Yes, ma'am. It belonged to my father."
Mrs. Gordon turned over the watch, and looked at
it with considerable interest, as she thought of it as
a memento of the dead, and how highly it must be
prized by the poor woman.
"Mercy! what's this!" exclaimed she, starting
back, and staggering towards her chair.
"What is the matter, mother?" cried Grace, running to her side. " Are you ill? "
"No, Grace; that inscription!" replied Mrs. Gordon, faintly, for she seemed very deeply moved, and
on the point of swooning. "Bring me a glass of
water.".
There was no water in the room, but Michael was
in the entry, and was despatched to procure it. He
returned in a moment, and when Mrs. Gordon had in
some measure recovered from the sudden shock,
she pointed to the inscription on the back of the
watch:"M. G.
to
J. R.
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"What does it mean, mother?  I do not see any
thing very strange about that."
"I have seen this watch before," she replied, stopping to think.  "Where did your mother get this
watch, Katy?" she asked, as it occurred to her that
she might be arriving at a conclusion too suddenly.
" It was my father's.":;
"WVhere did your father get it?  Did you ever
hear your mother say?"
"Yes, ma'am; her father, who was a rich Liverpool merchant, gave it to her husband, my father,"
replied Katy, who felt justified in revealing what her
mother had told her to keep secret.
"Mercy!" gasped Mrs. Gordon, almost overcome
by her emotions.
"What is the matter, mother?  What has all this
to do with you? " asked Grace, anxiously.
"Come here, Katy, my child," continued Mrs.
Gordon, as she drew the little candy merchant to her
side, and warmly embraced her.  "Your mother,
Katy, is my sister, I have scarcely a doubt."
"Why, mother!  Is it possible?"  exclaimed
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"It is even so. Mrs. Redburn, whose name we
have often heard mentioned without thinking it
might be the wife of John Redburn, my father's
clerk, is my sister. I had given her up, and have
regarded her as dead for more than ten years. But,
Grace, get my things, and I will go to her at once."
"Is that your portrait, ma'am?" asked Katy,
pointing to the picture of the mischievous lady.
"No, child; that is your mother's portrait."
" I almost knew it."
b"It, was taken when she was only sixteen years
old. She was a gay, wild girl then. I suppose she
is sadly changed now."
The thought completely overcame Mrs. Gordon,
and throwing herself upon a sofa, she wept like a
child. She thought of her sister suffering from poverty and want, while she had been rolling in opulence
and plenty. Grace tried to comfort her, but it was
some time before she was in a condition to enter the
carriage which was waiting at the door.
"What an adventure, mother!" exclaimed Grace,
as she seated herself by the side of Katy; and it was
evident she had a vein of the romantic in her composition.




264          POOR AND PROUD, OR"Do not talk to me, Grace. My heart is too full
for -words."
"But I may talk to Katy -may I not?"
"Yes."
"Well, cousin Katy," laughed Grace; "I shall
call you cousin, though you are not really my cousin."
"Not your cousin?" said Katy, a shade of disappointment crossing her animated features.
"No; for Mrs. Gordon is not really my mother;
only my step-mother; but she is just as good as a
real mother, for I never knew any other. Dear me!
how strange all this is! And you will,go up and
live with us in Temple Street, and - "
" I can't leave my mother," interrupted Katy.
"Your mother shall go too."
" She is too sick now."
Grace continued to talk as fast as she could, laying
out ever so many plans for the future, till the carriage
reached Colvin Court. I will not follow them into
the chamber of the sick woman; where Mrs. Gordon,
by a slow process that did not agitate the invalid too
violently, revealed herself to her sister.  The fine
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heart, and not that day, nor that night, nor for a
week, did she leave the sick bed of the sufferer.
There, in the midst of her sister's poverty, she did a
sister's offices.
It was three weeks before Mrs. Redburn was in a
condition to be moved to her sister's house; and
then she was once more in the midst of the luxury
and splendor of her early life. One day, when she
had improved so much as to be able to bear the fatigue of a long conversation, Mrs. Gordon, who had
thus far declined to discuss any exciting topics with
the invalid, proposed to have every thing explained.
Each'had a very long story to tell; but as the reader
already knows Mrs. Redburn's history, I shall only
briefly narrate that of Mrs. Gordon and the Guthrie
family, after the departure of the former.
Mr. Guthrie, the father of both, died two years
after the flight of Margaret, - Mrs. Redburn, - when
of course there was a large property to be divided.
Diligent search was made for Margaret in America,
but her husband had declared to some person in Liverpool that he had an engagement in Montreal.
This place was thoroughly canvassed, but without
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success. No trace of the runaways could bc discovered.  Agents were sent to various parts of America, and no tidings of Margaret had ever reached
them.
About two years after her father's death, Jane —
Mrs. Gordon —had married a very wealthy gentleman from Baltimore. He was then a widower, with
one child - Grace Gordon. She had come to America with him, and resided in Baltimore till his death,
a period of only two years. Then, having never
liked to live in that city, she had removed to Boston,
where she had a few friends. She had invested her
money and resided there, very happily situated; and
with no desire to return to her native land.
Her father's estate had been divided, and the portion which belonged to Margaret was held in trust
for seven years, -when the law presumed she was
dead, - and was then delivered to her sister, who was
the only remaining heir. Now that she had appeared, it was promptly paid over to her, and Mrs.
Redburn, before: poor and proud, was now rich, and
humility never sat more gracefully on the brow of
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Katy and her -mother had entered upon a new life;
and in the midst of-luxury and splendors, they could
not forget the past, nor cease to thank God for his
past and present mercies. Mrs. Gordon used to
declare it was strange she had never thought that
Mrs. Redburn might be her sister; but it was
-declared that stranger things than that had happened.
Katy continued to go to school with great regularity, and became an excellent scholar. She was
beloved by all her companions, and Grace, who was
married shortly after Katy entered the family, always
regarded her with the affection of a sister, insisting
that she should spend half the time at her house.
Mrs. Redburn "was soon  completely restored  to
health.  She had a fortune to manage now, and
when Dr. Flynch proposed to her to collect her
rents and take charge of her affairs, she respectfully declined the offer. Mrs. Gordon did not like
him as well as formerly, for her sister had opened
her eyes in regard to his true character, and she
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Having carried Katy through her principal troubles, and chronicled the rise and fall of the candy
trade, we shall step forward ten years to take a
final look at her and her friends, and then bid
them farewell.




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CHAPTER XXI.
RATY GOES TO CHURCH, AND HAS A BIRTHDAY -'PARTY.
TEN years is a long time - long enough to change
the child into a woman, the little candy merchant
into a fine lady..I suppose, therefore, that my young
friends will need to be introduced to Miss Redburn.
There she sits in the pleasant apartment in Temple
Street, -where the picture of the mischievous girl:still hangs, though it looks very little like the matron at her side, for whom it was taken.  She is not
beautiful- enough to be the heroine of a romance,
neither has she done any absurd thing; she has only
supported her mother when she had no one. else to
care for.her.  But:Katy is irresistible if she is not
pretty. She still looks as pleasant as a morning in.June, and smiles sweetly when any one speaks to her,
and when she.speaks:to any one.
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I am sorry I cannot inform my young lady
friends how Miss Redburn was dressed, or how she
proposed to dress, at her birthday party, which was
to come off the following week —what silks, what
laces, what muslins, and what jewels she was to wear.
I can only say that she was dressed very plainly, and
that her garments were exceedingly becoming; and,
that she had steadily resisted the solicitations of sundry French milliners and dress-makers to exceed her
usual simplicity at the party - and I cordially commend her example to all young ladies.
While Miss Redburn sat at the window, the door
bell rang with great violence; and Michael - yes, Michael- he is still there, a veteran in the service of
Mrs. Gordon, and fully believing that Katy is an
angel -Michael hastened to admit Grace.  She is a
little older than when we saw her last, but she is the
same Grace. She enters the room, kisses Katy with
as much zeal' as though she had not seen her for a
month, though they had met the day before. She
had scarcely saluted her cousin before a little fat
man of six came tumbling into the room, for he had
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"Come, aunty," said little Tommy, who persisted
in calling her by this title, as he rolled up to Miss
Redburh, who gave him a hearty kiss — " come,
aunty, I want you to come right down into the kitchen,
and make me a lot of molatheth'candy."
"Not now, Tommy "-would you believe it,
reader? that little boy's name is Thomas Howard
Parker -" not now, Tommy.  I came to tell you,
Katy, that the King of the Billows has been telegraphed."
"Has she? " exclaimed Katy, a deep blush suffusing her cheek.
" Yes; and you must go right down to the wharf,
or we shall not be in season to see Captain Howard,
who is coming up in a pilot boat."
Miss Redburn hastened to put on her things, and
she and Mrs. Parker seated themselves in the carriage that waited them.
Of course you know Captain Howard, reader? He
has followed the seas only eleven years; and though
but twenty-five years old, he is the commander of a
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perseverance will accomplish; for, with very little aid
from friends, he has worked his way from the forecastle into the cabin.'He is a self-educated man,
and has the reputation of being a thorough sailor
and a perfect gentleman.
Pursuant to a little arrangement made between
Captain Howard and Miss Redburn, just as he departed on this voyage, they were both seen in church
on the following Thursday afternoon; and when they
came'out, people addressed Katy as Mrs. Howard.
But to pass on to the occasion which she had chosen
to call a birthday party, though it was not exactly
that; and as it came immediately after the church
service, some called it a-levee.
There are a great many persons in the Gordon
mansion, as many as two hundred, I should think.
Of course I cannot stop to introduce all of them, but
there are a few who deserve this favor.
"Mr. Sneed, I am delighted to see you," said Mrs.
Howard, as a very tall and very slim gentleman, elegantly dressed, approached.
"You do me honor, madam. It is the superlative
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on this auspicious occasion," replied Mr. Sneed, as
he gently pressed the gloved hand of the lady.
That sounds just like Master Simon Sneed, only
very much intensified. Simon is a salesman still, in
a large establishment  has never risen above that
position, and probably never will; for, born to be a
gentleman, he feels as much above his business as his
business really is above him.
Simon's father and mother say a pleasant word to
the bride, and pass on. And here comes a great fat
woman, whose tongue flies like the shuttle in a loom.
Well, it is the captain's mother. Since her son has
been prosperous, she has had an easy time of it,
and has grown very corpulent.
"Who do you think has come, Katy?" puffed
Mrs. Howard.
"I don't know. Who?"
"Mrs. Colvin, that was! Mrs. McCarty, that is."
Some of the very good-natured people laughed,
and some of the very fastidious ones turned up their
noses, when they saw Mrs. McCarty so warmly received by the: bride; but she did not care who laughed
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in the hour of prosperity and happiness, those who
had been her friends in adversity.
"Mrs. Howard, I congratulate you," said a fat
man, who -was puffing and blowing at the heat of the
room.
It was an ex-mayor; and after he had said a few
pleasant words, he passed on to make room for a
hundred more who were waiting to speak to the
bride.
That was a very pleasant party; but as we are opposed to crowded rooms and late hours, we may as
well retire.
The next day the happy couple started upon a
bridal tour; and on their return, Captain Howard
sailed for Liverpool, in his fine ship, with Mrs. Howard as a passenger.
And now, my young friends, adieu. If you are
poor, don't be too proud to work at any honest occupation; but be too proud to do wrong - too proud to
degrade yourself in your own eyes, by doing a mean
act; and in this sense you may truly be " PooR AND
PROUD."