KATY MAKES A NEW FRIEND. 
 

 POOR AND PROUD; 
 
 OK. 
 
 THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN 
 
 far |J0nng Jalks. 
 
 BY 
 
 OLIVER OPT1C, 
 
 AUTHOR OF "THE BOAT CLUB," "ALL ABOARD," "NOW OR NEVER, 
 "TRY AGAIN," "IN DOORS AND OUT," ETC. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 I. E K AND S H E P A R D , 
 
 (SLCCKbsOKS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON * CO.) 
 
 1868. 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 13f>8, by 
 
 PHILLIPS. SAMPSON & CO., 
 In thr Clark F >Rc o the District Cour* of ih Iiisrrict of Mnssach 
 
 TKKKOtfFID AT TBB 
 
 OATON fcT/.HK.OTTPK 
 
TO 
 
 A. LICE MARIE ADAMS, 
 
 IB AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED, 
 
 BY HEK PATHEB. 
 
 M189737 
 
P R E F A C R . 
 
 BOBBY BRIGHT and Harrr West, whose histories were 
 contained in the last two T^umes 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 Rodburn, 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 Mun- 
 chausen 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 satis 
 faction in the reflection that, whatever exaggerations the 
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6 PREFACE. 
 
 critic may decide I have perpetrated in this volume, 1 hav 
 made the success of Katy Kedburn 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 illus 
 tration in the life of my heroine. 
 
 Thanking my young friends again for the pleasant re 
 ception 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 AJ)AM8. 
 , 1868. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAP. 1. Katy Redburn and others are introduced. . 
 CHAP. II. The History of the Silver Watch. ... 24 
 CHAP. III. Katy and Master Simon Sneed visit the Pawn 
 broker 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. .... 8^ 
 CHAP. VIII. Katy sells out, and visits the Mayor. . .98 
 CHA.P. IX. Katy talks with the Mayor, and recovers the 
 
 Watch U1 
 
 CHAP. X. Katy, in Distress, finds a Champion. . . . 123 
 
 CHAP. XI. Katy meets with extraordinary Success. . 13 
 
 CHAP. XII. Katy pays her Debts, and Tommy goes to Sea 15C 
 
 CHAP. XIII. Katy employs an Assistant. . . 1W 
 
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8 CONTEXTS. 
 
 CHAP. XIV. Master Simon Sneed makes a Mistake. . . 17C 
 
 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 gees to Church, and has a Birthday 
 Party. . 269 
 
POOR AND PROUD. 
 
POOH AND PROUD; 
 
 OK, 
 
 THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 KATY EEDBURN AND OTHERS ARE INTRODUCED. 
 
 " GITE 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 the 
 dirty young fisherman, who sat with his legs hanging 
 over the edge of the pier. 
 
 " I ll bet I won t," replied Johnny, gruffly, as ho 
 drew the basket out of the reach of the supplicant. 
 * k You needn t come round here tryin* to hook my 
 fish." 
 
 " You hooked em," said another juvenile angler, 
 
 (in 
 
12 POOR AND PROUD, OB 
 
 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. 
 
 44 Say it again, and I ll smash your head," contin 
 ued Johnny, jumping up from his seat. 
 
 44 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. 
 
 44 Jest you say that once more, and see what I ll 
 do," persisted Johnny. 
 
 44 1 won t do it." 
 
 * 4 You dasen t say it again." 
 
 44 Perhaps I dasen t ; at any rate, I shan t." 
 
 " Do you mean to say I hooked them fish ? " ex- 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY RKDHURX. 12 
 
 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 4k pitching into him." Probably a vision of de 
 feat flashed through his excited 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 indi 
 cate a purpose to do something. 
 
 44 Don t fight, Tommy," said the little ragged girl. 
 
 44 I don t mean to fight, Katy," Johnny, at theso 
 words, assumed an artistic attitude, ready to strike 
 the first blow, 44 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. 
 
 4 Don t fight, Johnny," repeated the girl, turning 
 to the excited aspirant for the honors of the r.ng. 
 
 44 Do you suppose I ll let him teli me I hooked 
 them fish ? blustered Johnny. 
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14 POOR AND PKOUD, OB 
 
 * 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 insin 
 uation 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 condescen 
 sion to laugh heartily, though somewhat unnati. rally, 
 at the jest. 
 
 ** Will you give me a flounder, Tommy ? " said 
 
THi fORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 15 
 
 the little ragged girl, as she glanced into his well- 
 filled 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 
 Borrow. 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 floun 
 ders ? " 
 
 " We have nothing to eat now," said Katy, burst 
 ing 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 
 
 44 Take em all, Katy ! " exclaimed Tommy, jump 
 ing 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 care 
 fully 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," whis- 
 pored he. 4k Got a bit o string, Johnny?" he added 
 aloud, as Katy began to protest against taking the 
 money. 
 
 44 Hain t got none ; but I ll give you a piece of iny 
 fish line, if you want," replied the bully, who wag 
 now unusually obliging. 
 
 44 There s a piece of spunyarn ; that s just the thing 
 I want ; " and Tommy ran half \vay up the pier tc 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 17 
 
 the bridge, picked up the line, and commenced string 
 ing the flounders on it. 
 
 44 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 1 
 wish I could do something more for you." 
 
 44 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-mor 
 row," replied Tommy, as he handed her the string of 
 fish. " Stop a minute ; here s a first-rate torn cod ; 
 let me put him on ; " and he took the string and 
 added the fish to his gift. 
 
 44 1 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. 
 
 44 Never mind em, Katy. Don t go hungry again 
 for a minute. Come to me, and I ll help you to 
 something or other." 
 
 " Thank you, Tommy ; " and with a lighter heart 
 
18 P-)OR VND PROUD, OR 
 
 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, torn-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, ana 
 probably neither was much damaged by this free com 
 panionship ; 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 
 JStitft. The bells were ringing for one o clock as she 
 entered the grocery at the corner and purchased the 
 two-cent roll which Tommy Howard s bounty ena 
 bled her to add to her feast. Elated with the success 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 19 
 
 r>f her mission, she quickened her pace up the court 
 -o 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 ob 
 tained a very simple dinner. 
 
 44 O 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 
 bad 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 doc 
 tor, 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 suffer 
 ing He was the agent of Mrs. Gordon, a widow 
 
20 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 lady, who owned the house in which Katy s mo-hot 
 Lived. Hi; collected her rents, and transacted all her 
 business ; and as far as dollars and cents were con 
 cerned, 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 em 
 ployed him by telling her about the difficulties he 
 encountered in the discharge of his duty, or by de 
 scribing 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 
 hoard the exclamation of Katy, " you have told me a 
 falsehood. You said you had no money, not a cent. 
 Where did you get that roll, child ? " 
 
 44 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 de 
 ceive Vne. 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 REOBURX. 21 
 
 " Xo, sir, I have not," pleaded the sick woman. 
 
 * Your child buys bread." 
 
 44 I did not give her the money." 
 
 " Where did you get the money to buy that rcll 
 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." 
 
 44 Very probable that a dirty, ragged boy gave her 
 the money ! This is another falsehood, Mrs. Red- 
 burn. 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 
 present case there was a difficulty, and public opinion 
 
22 POOR ANT) PROUD, OH 
 
 would not justify him in turning a sick woman out 
 of the house ; but if she lied, had money concealed, 
 and would not pay her rent, it would alter the mat 
 ter. As he wished to believe this was the case, he 
 had no difficulty in convincing himself, and thus qui 
 eting 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. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY KKDBURN. 2d 
 
 * Don t cry, mother ; something can be done. 1 
 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," con 
 tinued 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." 
 
 * 1 should hate to have that sold, mother." 
 
 * We must sell it, or pawn it." 
 
 * We will pawn it then." 
 
 41 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. lit 
 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. 
 
 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 fin 
 gers 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 satis 
 faction. An occasional direction from her mother 
 enabled her to cook the fish properly, and dinner was 
 ready. 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 
 gide of the bed. The invalid had no appetite ; but to 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATV REDBUKN. 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 other 
 wise 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 be 
 fore the watch is carried off, I want to tell you some 
 thing 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 fatLer than 
 ghe already knew. She had often asked her mother 
 about him, but she had generally evaded her ques 
 tions, 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 
 3 
 
20 POOR AND PROUD, OK 
 
 great secret, after all ; only a painful history, which 
 her sensitive mother did not like to rehearse. Mrs. 
 Kedburn handed the watch to Katy, and asked her 
 to look upon the back of it. 
 
 " Yes, mother, I have often seen those wore 8 on 
 (here * ALL FOR THE BEST. What do they mean ? " 
 said Katy. 
 
 " This watch was given to your father by my fa 
 ther," 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 lit:le 
 girl. 
 
 " His name was Matthew Guthrie. He was a mer 
 chant 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 ser 
 vants." 
 
 " He was rich, and lived in good style. One day 
 there came a young man in great distress to his count 
 ing room. He was a clerk, and had been sent by Ins 
 employer in Manchester to pay a large sum of money 
 to my father. After leaving the train, he had en- 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY KKDBURN . 27 
 
 kered 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 in 
 formed 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 police 
 men to assist him in his search. All that day and 
 all that 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 Iledburn, your father. My father gave him 
 a much larger salary than he had been receiving be 
 fore, so that his misfortune in losing the money 
 proved to bo 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 
 
28 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 to the manner in which he had obtained his sitd- 
 ation." 
 
 " But how came you here, mother, if your fathel 
 was rich, and lived in a fine house ? You are very 
 poor now ; " asked Katy, who feared that the mys 
 tery was yet to come. 
 
 Mrs. Redburn burst into tears, and covered hei 
 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 re 
 minded her mother of some unpleasant thing. 
 
 " It was all my own fault, Katy. I am here, poor 
 and wretched, because I disobeyed my father ; be 
 cause 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 ol 
 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. 2d 
 
 was discharged. My father refused to see rue 
 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 
 gad 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 an.l 
 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 be- 
 cimea common sot. The poor w ; ff*had then been 
 3* 
 
*0 POOR A.ND PROUD, OR 
 
 compelled to toil for her own support and that of hei 
 child ; and having been brought up in luxury 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. Mrs. 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 ob 
 taining plenty of sewing, and was able to support 
 herself and child very well ; but her husband, no\v 
 lost to all scnse*of decency, contrived to obtain, froiii 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY KEDBURN. 31 
 
 time to time, a portion of her hard earnings. She 
 could never have believed that John Iledburn 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 de 
 lirium tremcns. He was buried, and peace, if not 
 hope, settled on the brow of the broken-hearted wife. 
 
 Year after year Mrs. Iledburn struggled on, often 
 with feeble hands and fainting heart, to earn a sub 
 sistence 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 lux 
 ury 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 
 months before our story opens, she had been takoi 
 
32 POOR AXD PROUD, OB 
 
 eick, and was no longer able to work. Her disease 
 was an affection of the spine, which was at times very 
 painful, and confined her to the bed. 
 
 44 But where is your father now ? " asked Katy, 
 when her mother had finished the narrative. 
 
 44 1 do not know ; if he is alive, he probably livea 
 in Liverpool." 
 
 44 Why don t you write a letter to him ? " 
 
 44 1 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." 
 
 44 Why don t you write again ? " 
 
 44 It is useless." 
 
 44 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 ser 
 vants to wait upon us." 
 
 Alas, my child, I have given up all hope of evel 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 83 
 
 Beting liim 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 letter* would 
 have melted his heart." 
 
 " Haven t you any brothers and sisters, mother ? " 
 
 " I had one sister ; and I have written several let 
 ters to her, but with no better success They rray 
 be all dead. I fear they are." 
 
 44 And your mother r 
 
 She died when I was young. I krow 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 ta 
 bles 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. V r e 
 
 have had enough to eat till to-day. I am going to 
 
 cake care of you now, you have taken care of me so 
 
34 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 long, * replied Katy, as she wiped away the tears that 
 flowed down her mother s wan cheek. 
 
 " What 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 &a 
 much as you can ; and I trust that some fortunate 
 event will enable us to redeem it." 
 
 Katy took the watch, smoothed down her hail 
 again, put on her worn-out bonnet, and left the 
 ELCUBC. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBUKN. S3 
 
 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 occu 
 pied 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 tailor- 
 ess, Mr. Brown, the lumper, and Mr. Sneed, the 
 mason. 
 
 Katy s mother lived in a small house, with throe 
 other families. She occupied two rooms, for which 
 
36 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 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 human 
 ity and his regard for the welfare of the poor had 
 induced him to fix the rent at so cheap a rate ; but 
 ho 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 M&s- 
 ter Simon Sneed had a father, being at a loss to de 
 termine which was the more important personage ol 
 the two ; but I am not going to say any thing against 
 either of them, for the father was a very honest ma 
 son, and the son was a very nice young man. 
 
 Katy knocked at the door of this house, and in 
 quired 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 ap 
 pearance. Seating herself on the door stone, she 
 permitted her mind to wander buck to the narra 
 tive her mother had related to her. She glanced at 
 
THE FOHTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 37 
 
 her coarse clothes, and could hardly believe that her 
 grandfather wis 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 wat 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 abi ut fifteen years old, 
 4 
 
38 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 and call enough to have been two years older. He 
 was very slim, and held his head up very straigb*. 
 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 coul 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 
 abor to make him such. 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 unfashion 
 able 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 in 
 dulge to any very great extent. 
 
 Master Simon IE need was a great man in his own 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 
 
 estimation ; and, as he had read a great many excit 
 ing 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 over- 
 whelmed him by the force and elegance of his rheto 
 ric. He spoke familiarly of great men and great 
 events. 
 
 His business relations for Master Sneed was a 
 business man were not very complicated. Accord 
 ing 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 with 
 out 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 
 Simon was a bov io ^ tore, whose duty it was to 
 
10 POOR AX1) PROUD, OR 
 
 make fires, sweep out, and carry bundles, and, in con 
 sideration of the fact that he boarded himself, to 
 receive two dollars and a half a week for his ser 
 vices. There was a vast difference between Mastei 
 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 T 
 have written create a prejudice against him, for ho. 
 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 as 
 tonished when he told her about his mercantile rela 
 tions 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 im 
 mense sums of money ; and how the firm woidd have 
 to give up business if he should die, or be obliged tc 
 [cave them. Katy believed that Master Simon was 
 a gr^at man, and she wondered how hi? 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 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 ele 
 vated position in the firm, was condescending to her ; 
 lie had more than once done her a favor, and had al 
 ways 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 stjod 
 picking his teeth before her. 
 
 " I want you to do something for me very much 
 indeed." 
 
 " State your business, Katy." 
 
 " Dr. 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 ? " con 
 tinued Simon, when Katy hesitated to reveal the fam 
 ily trouble. " It is really unfortunate, Katy ; it is 
 after bank hours now, and I don t see that I c*. i ac 
 commodate you." 
 
 * O, I don t want to borrow the money." 
 
 * Ah, you don t." 
 4* 
 
42 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " 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 
 eyeil her coarse, ill-made garments. 
 
 " I thought you would," replied Katy, with a lock 
 of disappointment. 
 
 " Well, Katy, I shall be very glad to assist you in 
 this matter, but " 
 
 Master Simon paused, and glanced again at the un 
 fashionable 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 ill- 
 dressed young lady was absurd, and not to be toler 
 ated. Master Sneed reflected. It is undoubtedly 
 that " where there is a v ill there is a way." 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 43 
 
 41 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 lendei 
 opened and carefully examined. His practised eye 
 
44 POOR A!VD PROUD, OK 
 
 aoon 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 with 
 out reserve the pitiful story of want and destitutiuu 
 which compelled Mrs. Redburn to part with the cher 
 ished 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 irticle 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 scli 
 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 
 3onld not stand Simon s fine speeches, and would 
 
TIJF FORTUNES OF KA.TT REDBDRN. 45 
 
 not take the watch at any rate ; BO they departed to 
 find another place, and entered a shop close by. 
 
 " Where did you get this ? " asked the broker, 
 sourly ; and Katy repeated hei 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," pro 
 tested 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 proceed 
 ing of the broker, and even to threaten him with the 
 terrors of the law. The money lender repeated hi^ 
 menace, and even went to the door, for the apparent 
 purpose of putting it in execution. 
 
46 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " Come, Katy, let us go ; but I assure you 1 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." 
 
 " O, dear ! my poor mother ! " sobbed Katy. 
 
 " 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 Bos 
 ton 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 misfort me. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 47 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 XATY MATURES A MAGNIFICENT SCHEME. 
 
 I SUPPOSE it is all for the best, mother," said 
 Katy, when she had told her sad story of disappoint 
 ment. " I can t get those words out of my head, 
 since you have told me about my father. I feel jusl 
 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. Red- 
 burn. " It will make you much better contented 
 with your lot. I have suffered so much that I can 
 not help repining a little, though I feel that my des 
 tiny 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 sub 
 mission to the will of Heaven which looks upward 
 in the hour of trial, not doubting that the all- wise 
 God knows best what is for the good of his children. 
 
4S POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 * 
 
 If she believed that misfortunes were all for the best, 
 it was only an impulse derived from the story of hei 
 father ; a kind of philosophy which was very con 
 venient for the evil day, because it permitted the 
 sulferer 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 Tes 
 tament during Katy s absence, and a better and 
 purer spirit 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 j ust 
 manner over her misfortunes ; and those words on 
 the watch seemed to convey a new meaning to her, ae 
 she considered them in the light of Christian revela 
 tion. 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 
 the intelligence with calmness, and felt more ready 
 
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 opera 
 tion. 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 lor 
 Katy s supper, for her mother couid 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 
 
50 POOR A.ND PROUD, OK 
 
 to sleep foi 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 assuicd 
 lie 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. Lut 
 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 sec them in their poverty and 
 want ? who but some evil person, coming to heap 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBUBtf. 51 
 
 ome new grief upon them ? She scarcely had tl> 
 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 ? " 
 
 " O, you know ; " and he turned to run away. 
 
 " Stop a minute, Tommy," called Katy. " I want 
 to speak to you." 
 
 " Well, what is it ? " 
 
 " You haven t told any body about it have you ? " 
 
 " About what ? " 
 
 " What I told you yesterday," replied Katy, hang 
 ing 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 
 nobody but mother." 
 
52 POOK AND PROUD, OH 
 
 "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 o 
 butter and half a dozen hot biscuit, which she carried 
 to the bedside for her mother s inspection. 
 
 " What have you done, my child ? " exclaimed the 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 53 
 
 poor woman, a flush gathering on her pale cheefc. 
 " 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. 
 1 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 
 \iill make it all right." 
 
 Mrs. Redburn could not taste the biscuit, but Katy 
 ate heartily. Her pride was not inflated by the re 
 membrance of brighter days. All she had was inher 
 ited from her mother. 
 
 After breakfast she put on her bonnet anl left the 
 house, assuring her mother she should be back by 
 o* 
 
H POOR AXD TROU1), OK 
 
 twelve o clock. She would not tell her where aha 
 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 Snecd. 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, Si 
 mon, 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 ; y 
 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 con 
 tempt \vith my associates ? " 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 55 
 
 " I didn t think there was any harm in it. I 
 waited outside for half an hour, and you didn t come 
 out. 1 
 
 44 1 can t leave the affairs of this firm to attend to 
 
 every little " and Master Simon s naturally good 
 
 ueart prevented him from uttering the unkind words 
 -hat had been on his tongue. " 1 suppose you come 
 o know about the watch. I haven t had time to 
 .all upon the mayor yet, but I will do so at dinner 
 time." 
 
 44 1 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. 
 
 44 She lives in Temple Street, over back of the State 
 House. What do you want of her ? " 
 
 44 1 want to see her. Do you suppose you can get 
 that watch back : " 
 
 44 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." 
 
 44 Are you acquainted with the mayor ? " asked 
 Katy, timidly, for, since the adventure of the previous 
 
5<5 POOIl AND PROUD, OK 
 
 day, she had entertained some slight doubts in re 
 gard to the transcendent abilities of Master Siuiv,n 
 Snced. 
 
 kt 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 astound 
 ing 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 
 him 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 _ioor to Sands & Co. s was the store 
 of a celebrated confectioner. In the window, with 
 eundry sugar temples, cob houses of braided candy 
 
THE FORTUNES OF K.AT1 REDBURN. 57 
 
 und stacks of cake, was a great heap of molassea 
 candy ; and as Katy paused for an instant to gaze a 
 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 her 
 self. " 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 mer 
 chandise 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 her 
 self, how happy she should be ! 
 
 Full of enthusiasm at the idea of accomplishing 
 Buch a vast project, she scarcely heeded the crowds 
 of people that thronged the street and rudely jos 
 tled her. If she saw them at all, it was only to 
 regard them as so many purchasers of 
 
58 POOR AND PROUD, On 
 
 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 pur 
 pose 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. 
 
 " 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 air. not a beggar, ma am ; indeed I am not. I 
 
THE FORTUNES OF TCATY REDBURN. 59 
 
 *ant to see Mrs. Gordon very much. Please to lei 
 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 Mijhael told her to 
 stand in the entry while Miss Grace went up stairs 
 to call Mrs. Gordon. 
 
POOR AND PROUD. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 KATY VISITS MRS. GORDON, AND GETS BID OP 
 DR. FLYNCH. 
 
 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. Gor 
 don, 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 oppor 
 tunity 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 oi 
 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 at 
 tracted her attention, and made her forget the soft 
 
THE FOBTUNES OF KA1 f EEDBURN. 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 fol 
 lowed her, and brought back her attention to the 
 canvas again. 
 
 In vain she attempted to fasten her mind upon 
 Borne of the other portraits. There was an elderly 
 gentleman, with a full red face ; but the jealous K ly 
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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 por 
 trait, 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 stead 
 iness that began to make her feel nervous and un 
 easy ; 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 OF 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, appar 
 ently of more than forty years of age, who now en 
 tered the room. 
 
 The expression of her countenance was very pleas 
 ant, and though there were a few wrinkles on her 
 brow, and she wore a lace cap, Katy came to the con 
 clusion 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." 
 
 44 What is your name, child ? " 
 44 Katy Redbuin, ma am." 
 4 In what house do you live ? " 
 44 In one of yours in Colvin Court. Mother is a 
 poor woman, and has been sick so much this sum- 
 tner that she can t pay the rent." 
 
 44 1 am very sorry for you, my child, but I refei 
 
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 you to my agent, Dr. Flynch. I do not like to med 
 dle 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 to 
 day, 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 
 mm 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 beet 
 
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 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 some tiling in the eloquence and earnest 
 ness 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, fol 
 he knows nothing about the case." 
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66 POOR AND PROUD, OB 
 
 * Thank you, ma am," said Katy, with a prompt 
 ness 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 per 
 son 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." 
 
 " What 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 MicLael 
 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 tc 
 her father. 
 
68 POOR AND PROUD, OK 
 
 , "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. When 
 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 01 
 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 :all at hia 
 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." 
 
 The little girl looked up into her pretty eyes, 
 
70 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 beaming with p ty and love ; and she could hardly 
 resist the temptation to oblige her by accepting (he 
 gift ; but since she had heard the story of her moth 
 er s life, she understood why she was so much proudei 
 than other poor people ; and as she thought of her 
 grandfather in his fine house in the great city of Liv 
 erpool, 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 consid 
 eration that weighed with great force upon her mind. 
 One of those half dollars would be a sufficient cap 
 ital 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 shalj 
 aot feel bad if you never pay me." 
 
 " I shall certainly pay it again," persisted the em- 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 71 
 
 bryo candy merchant. " I would not take it if 1 
 thought I could not." 
 
 * Very well ; but you must know I think you are 
 a very singular little girl." 
 
 44 1 am poor and proud ; that s all." 
 
 Katy took the loan, and with her fancy fired with 
 brilliant expectations in regard to the candy opera 
 tion, 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 re 
 volted 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 in 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 
 bouse." 
 
72 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " 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 mat 
 ter foi 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 T want to tell you about my plan too, 
 mother " 
 
 The active little girl made a cup of tea for hei 
 mother, and the dinner was soon despatched, 
 
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POOR AND PROUD. OK 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 KATY PREPARES A STOCK OF MERCHANDISE. 
 
 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 pro 
 ject, 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 KATT 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. Be 
 fore 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, smil 
 ing at the enthusiasm of her daughter. 
 
 tk 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 
 limes 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. 
 
 " O, 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 ? " 
 
 " Why 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 thought 
 less ? You do not understand what you propose." 
 
 " I think I do, mother. I don t see any harm in 
 selling candy to those who are willing to buy " 
 
 * Porhaps there is no harm in the mere act of sell 
 ing candy ; but what a life for you to lead ! It make* 
 me shudder to think of it." 
 
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 " It is your pride, mother." 
 " I am thankful I have some pride left, Katy." 
 " But, mother, we can t be poor and proud. We 
 haven t got any money to be proud with." 
 
 " I am proud, I know ; I wish I could banish it, 1 
 replied Mrs. Rcdburn, 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 
 the degradation of such a life, and even feared that 
 Katy might be led astray while pursuing such an 
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78 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 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 hao 
 an opportunity to accomplish a great work, and hei 
 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 tfho would lend you 
 money ? " 
 
 " Miss Grace Gordon." 
 
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 14 Did you borrow it, Katy ? " asked Mrs. Red- 
 burn, 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." 
 
60 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 whicb 
 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 
 t>f 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, min 
 gling 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 
 
THE 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 merchan 
 dise. 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 stuck 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 a& much zeal as the candy stuck to her. 
 
 As is almost always the case with those who per 
 severe 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 por 
 tion of the mass into candy clear, light-colored, in 
 viting candy. Columbus felt no prouder of hia 
 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 reso- 
 4 utely 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. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 83 
 
 " 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 
 Belling 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. 
 
 4 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, a* she 
 threw off her 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 oppo 
 sition. 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. K5 
 
 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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 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 KATY MAXES A LARGE SALE. 
 
 KA.TY 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; 
 
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 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 had never 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. Hop- 
 in"- for better days, she had sold most of her best 
 Iresses, and those of Katy. The small sums raised 
 >y these sacrifices were soon used up ; and when 
 *he daughter could no longer make a decent ap 
 pearance, 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 ray 
 
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 young friends ha^e 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 mer 
 cantile 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 en 
 counter" them. 
 
 " Now, my dear child," said Mrs. Iledburn, m 
 conclusion, " if any evil person insults you, dp not 
 resent it, but run away as fast as you can. * 
 
 " Shan t 1 say any thing, mother ? * 
 
THE FOBTUNR8 OF KATY REDBUBN. 89 
 
 "Not a word." 
 
 * But if some naughty boy or girl, no bigger than 
 I am myself, should be saucy to me, I think I can 
 give them as good as they send." 
 
 4 * Don t do it, Katy." 
 
 44 They have no business to insult me." 
 
 44 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 ? " 
 
 44 No matter, Katy; if they are unkind and wicked, 
 it is no reason that you should be unkind and wick 
 ed. If you leave them without resenting their in 
 sults, the chances are that they will bs 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 en 
 emy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : 
 for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his 
 head. " 
 
 44 1 won t say a word, mother, whatever they say 
 ,o me. I ll be as meek as Moses." 
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90 POOR AXD PKOUD, OB 
 
 44 1 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, 
 tor 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 tempta 
 tions. 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 ^ 4 
 
 came at last, and she took up the Bible which lay 
 
 i 
 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 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REBEL RN. 91 
 
 Derils and temptations that would assail her. She 
 tried to banish her foolish pride ; when she consid 
 ered 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 tri 
 umph 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 en 
 tirely banished it from her heart. Some queer 
 
?2 POOR AND PEOUD, OS 
 
 ideas canje 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 re 
 flections as these to influence her ; and as soon as 
 she was conscious of the nature of her thoughts she 
 banished them. 
 
 44 I m going to support my mother, and I have no 
 right to be proud. If I meet my grandfather, I 
 should like to sell him twenty sticks of candy." 
 
 44 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. 
 
 44 You re a spunky one ; mother told me all about 
 it. I should like two sticks," said Tommy, as he 
 offered her the money. 
 
 44 Take two, Tommy, and as many more as you 
 like." 
 
 44 Two is all I want ; " and he placed the two cents 
 on the tray. 
 
 " No, Tommy, I won t take your money," replied 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBUBN. 93 
 
 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 
 now." 
 
 " 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 
 lace 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." 
 
 This was very obliging of Tommy ; and when Katy 
 
94 POOR AND PBOUD, OB 
 
 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 cornea 
 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 iv 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 think 
 ing 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 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 
 
 9,1 
 
 least interest in the great mission she had under- 
 taken. But Katy was aware that it requires some 
 effort in these days to sell goods, and she must work ; 
 ehe must ask people to buy her candy. 
 
 There was a nice-looking gentleman, with a good- 
 natured 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 him- 
 self as ready for business, to a child of a largei 
 
96 POOR AND PEOUD, OR 
 
 growth. Every thing seemed to hang on the issues 
 of that tremendous moment. 
 
 " Buy some candy ? " said she, in tremulous tones, 
 her gre^t, swelling heart almost choking her ut 
 terance. 
 
 " No, child. I don t want any," replied the gen 
 tleman, 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 gentle 
 man, 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 magni 
 tude of her first commercial transaction. Visions of 
 
THE FORTUNES )F KATT REDBURN. 97 
 
 urealth, 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 op 
 eration. 
 
 "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 ex 
 tended beyond the sale of one stick at a time, and 
 she was not prepared for such a rush of trade. How 
 ever, she tore off a piece from one of the white sheets 
 at the bottom of the tray, wrapped up the BIX sticks 
 as nicely as she could, and handed them to the gen 
 tleman, who then left her to find another customer. 
 
 Kuty, elated by her first success, ran home as fast 
 as she could to procure some more white paper, of 
 which she had a dozen stieets 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 PRJUD. OX 
 
 CH.VPT.ER VIII. 
 
 RATY SELLS O^T, AND TISITS THE MAYOR. 
 
 KATY reached Washington Ct/eet once more. She 
 had lost all her timiJity, and \roidd not have feared 
 to accost the governor, if she La** met him, and re 
 quest him to purcha** a cent s forth of molasses 
 candy. 
 
 " Buy some candy ? v said she I: the nrst person 
 who passed near her. 
 
 "No! "was the pronpt and em \4 .^*c answer of 
 the gentleman addressed. 
 
 " It is very nice," sugg^-ed Katy. 
 
 " Get out of my way," growled the gpAueman, and 
 the little candy merchant deemed it prudorU to heed 
 ths command. 
 
 She was nettled by this rude reception, ar\l \vould 
 have been disposed to resent it, if there had le^.B any 
 way for her to do so. She had not yet lcar.it 3 *o 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY 11EDBURN. 99 
 
 bear i,p 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 bj 
 the hand, at the same time placing a cent on hei 
 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 her 
 self 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 cop 
 per, and transferred it to her pocket. 
 
 " Your candy looks very nice," added the lady, 
 evidently pleased with Katy s polite manners. 
 
 " It * very nice, ma am." 
 
100 POOR AND PROUD, OK 
 
 " Ha-v e 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 whole 
 sale 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 dis 
 heartened, for the success she had met with at the 
 beginning had raised her anticipations so high that 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KA.TY REDBURJT. 101 
 
 she was not disposed to be content with moleiate 
 sales. While 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 IP 
 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 gen 
 tlemen 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 ; atfd with this new idea she was encouraged 
 to make a new effort. Walking along till she came 
 9* 
 
1 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 to a store where there appeared to be several clerks 
 she entered. 
 
 " Buy some candy ? " said she, addressing a sales 
 man 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 unpro 
 voked 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 portly gentleman on the street, whose soft, 
 yielding form aUme 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 gentle 
 man, in soothing tones. 
 
 44 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. 
 
 " 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 find 
 ing 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 re 
 vealed this humiliating truth, except under the se 
 vere pressure of a wounded spirit. 
 
 " Poor child ! " exclaimed the portly gentleman, 
 fhrusting his hand deep down into his pocket, and 
 pulling up a handful of silver. " Here is half a 
 dollar for you, for 1 know you tell the truth." 
 " O, no, sir ; I can t take money as a gift." 
 Eh ? " 
 
 The gentleman looked astonished, and attempted 
 to persuade her ; but she steadily protested agamst 
 receiving his money as a gift. 
 
 " You are a proud little git I, my dear." 
 
104 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " 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." 
 
 " Never mind the change ; " and the fat gentleman 
 hurried away. 
 
 Katy was so utterly astounded to find she had dis 
 posed 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 re 
 gard 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 
 a compromise between her pride and her poverty. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 105 
 
 She had sold candy for the money, and the gentle 
 man had paid her over three cents a stick rathei 
 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 Simou 
 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 
 lost treasure. Just now our firm require \he undi 
 vided attention of all in the store." 
 
106 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " I told Mrs. Gordon all about it, and she prom 
 ised to speak to the mayor." 
 
 " It was unnecessary to trouble her with the mat 
 ter ; 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 of, 
 and Katy walked towards home, wondering why a 
 person of so much importance to the Messrs. Sauda 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 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. Kedburn, 
 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 hei 
 spirits by a single reproach. Perhaps her morning s 
 teflections had subdued her pride so that she did not 
 feel disposed to do so. 
 
POOR AXI) PROUD, OK 
 
 After dinner Katy hastened at once to Temple Streei 
 again. To her great disappointment she found that 
 Mrs. Gordon and her daughter had been suddenly 
 called to Baltimore hy the death of one of her hus 
 band s near relatives. But the kind lady had not 
 forgotten her, and that was a great consolation. Mi 
 chael 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 vio 
 lently, she resolutely rang the bell at the door. 
 
 " Is the mayor in ? " asked she of the sleek ser 
 vant 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 to 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 thinga 
 all at once ; and among other things, she wished 
 Master Simon Sneed had been there, that he mighi 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KA.TY REDBTJRN. 
 
 report the circumstance to his friend the mayor. 
 What 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 
 aye 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." 
 
 4k From Mrs. Gordon ! Why didn t you s.^y 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 
 10 
 
110 POOR AND PROUD, D* 
 
 Btick of molasses candy, with which he haJ contrived 
 plentifully to bedaub his face, came out of the ad 
 joining 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 r " asked she, willing to cultivate 
 his acquaintance. 
 
 " Don t I, though ! " 
 
 Where did your father get it ? " 
 
 t4 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. 
 
THE FOKTUXES OF KATY KEDIHTRX. Ill 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 KATY TALKS WITH THE MAYOK, 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 
 leason 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 tLe 
 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 gen 
 tleman 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 four 
 teen cents worth of candy. 
 
 " Ah, my dear, it is you ! " exclaimed the mayor, 
 as he recognized the little candy merchant. 
 
 *^es, 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 peopl > 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, 
 with another courtesy. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 113 
 
 14 1 am glad you have come to me with this busi 
 ness, Katy. Mrs. Gordon speaks very handsomelv 
 of you." 
 
 " She is very kind, sir." 
 
 " You have lost your watch have you, Katy ? " 
 
 " My father s watch, if you please, sir ; " and hav 
 ing 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 re 
 cital, 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." 
 
 " But who was he ? " 
 
 ** Master Simon Sneed." 
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114 POOR AND PROUD, OB 
 
 " Sneed : Sneed ? " mused the mayor. 
 
 " Yes, sir ; Master Simon Sneed." 
 
 " Master ? What is he ? A schoolmaster ? " 
 
 " O, no, sir. Every body calls him master. H<i 
 keeps store." 
 
 " Sneed ? I never heard the name before. Where 
 is his store ? " 
 
 " In Washington Street. It says Sands & Co. on 
 the sign." 
 
 " O, 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 ac 
 count 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." 
 
 4< Master Simon says the firm would not be able to 
 get along without him," replied Katy, who began to 
 bave some doubts whether Simon was so great a m;iD 
 as he had represented himself to be. 
 
 " Master Simon is very kind to stay with their, 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY KEDBUKN. 115 
 
 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 li 
 brary 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 re 
 covering 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 jeal 
 ous of his own credit, for he foresaw that Katy could 
 not very well avoid telling the mayor that he had 
 been with her at the time of the unfortunate transac 
 tion. Besides, he did not exactly like the idea of 
 
11 P. POOR AND PROUD, OK 
 
 Katy s going to the mayor at all. Katy Red burn 
 going to see the mayor ! By and by every bod? 
 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 ? 
 
 " 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 af 
 fairs which enabled him to he absent for half an hour 
 without serious injury to their business. He has 
 tened to the pawnbroker s at wlr.ch the robbery had 
 been committed. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY RKDBURN- 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 circum 
 stance of a little girl presenting herself here with a 
 silver watch." 
 
 " Well, I do." 
 
 " I was with her." 
 
 " TKm I suppose you helped her steal it." 
 
 4i Such an insinuation, sir, is unworthy a gentle 
 man. I have come, sir, with a benevolent purpose, 
 as 1 came before. In half an hour the history of that 
 transaction will be conveyed to the mayor, who, al 
 low 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 ? " 
 eaid the broker, angrily. " Do you mean to say I 
 stole the watch ? " 
 
H8 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " By nc means ; only that you took what did not 
 belong to you," replied Master 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 Si 
 mon 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. 
 
 " I 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," an 
 swered Master Simon, whose earnestness made him 
 forget for a moment to use his high-flown words, 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATT REDBURN. 119 
 
 " 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 expla 
 nation. He did not care to quarrel with any one 
 who acknowledged his respectability. In a few mo 
 ments they reached the City Hall, and ascended the 
 stone steps to the vestibule. As they did so, Katy 
 entered from the opposite door. 
 
2 POOR AND PKOTJT), OH 
 
 " How glad I am to find you, Master Simon ! " 
 exclaimed she. " Can you tell me where the citj 
 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 con- 
 Rented to deliver it up to the rightful owner." 
 tk Let me see the note," said the broker. 
 " No, I won t," replied Katy, pretty sharply. 
 w 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 get 
 ting 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 
 mayor s note. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 121 
 
 " 1 suppose there is no need of your delivering 
 this note now ? " continued the broker, with a cun 
 ning smile. 
 
 " No ; I don t care any thing about it, now that I 
 nave 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 en 
 tered 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," re 
 marked 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 fel 
 lows." 
 
 " I thank you very much, Master Simon ; and I 
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122 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 
 
 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, ana 
 Katy ran home to cheer her mother with the sight 01 
 the recovered relic. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF XA1Y REDBURN. 123 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 KJLTY, 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 at 
 tended her forenoon s exertions was gratifying be 
 yond 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 pre 
 pared 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 
 idea would not permit her to remain inactive a sin 
 gle hour. 
 
124 POOH AND PROUD, OH 
 
 "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 
 ner bonnet. 
 
 " I wish you would stay at home, and rest your 
 self ; 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 
 \\ hat should we do ? " 
 
 " O, 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 wag 
 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, 
 Among them was Johnny Grippen, whose acquaint- 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 125 
 
 noe 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 thej 
 were not satisfied with the cavalier manner in which 
 Katy had treated them. 
 
 " Where you going with all that candy ? " re 
 peated 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 to sell 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." 
 
 Katy 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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126 POOR AND PKOUD, OB 
 
 * 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 pa 
 tience. 
 
 " 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 al 
 ley 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 thero 
 were no passers-by to interfere in her favor. 
 
 " Johnny ! " shouted one of the bully s compau 
 ons. "Johnny, Tom Howard is coming." 
 
 Let him come ! " replied Johnny, doggedly. 
 
 He did not half like the insinuation conveyed in 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 127 
 
 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 con 
 quests he had won. On the whole, he was a misera 
 ble, 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 cara 
 to dirty their fingers upon the bullying cub. 
 
 Sensible people, whether men or boys, invariably 
 despise the " fighting character," b< he young or old. 
 Nine times out of ten he is both a knave and a fool, 
 a coward and a bully. 
 
 O& the other hand, Tommy Howard was one of 
 
128 POOR AND PROUD, OK 
 
 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 cour 
 age. Johnny had " stumped " him to fight, and even 
 taken off his coat and dared him to come ; but Tom 
 my 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 oc 
 casions. 
 
 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 uncon- 
 quered 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. 
 
 What s the matter, Katy?" asked Tommy, as 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBUrty. 12<J 
 
 he came with quick pace up the court, without deign 
 ing 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 won 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 Jchnny, 
 stepping up before her again. 
 
 " Go ahead, Katy," repeated Tommy, placing him 
 self 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 
 indignation, still preserved his wonted coolness : and 
 
130 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 it was evident to the excited spectators that he did 
 net intend to " mind out." 
 
 " Come on, if you want to fight ! " shouted John 
 ny, 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 per 
 son 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 
 
 young friends will excuse me foi digressing so 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 131 
 
 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 
 44 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 could 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 ac 
 cidents. 
 
 " Hit him, Johnny ! " cried one of the vagabond 
 troop that followed in the train of the bully. 
 
 u He darsent fight," replied Johnny. 
 
 " Nor you, nuther," added another of the sup 
 porters. 
 
 This was too much for Johnny. It cut him to tho 
 quick, and he could not stand it. If he did not 
 thresh Tommy now, his reputation would be entirely 
 ruined. 
 
 " Darsen t I r " exclaimed he. " Come back 
 
132 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 here ; " but as Tommy did not come, he ran IK 
 behind him, and aimed a blo*v at the side of h:i 
 head. 
 
 Katy s intrepid defender, who had perhaps read in 
 Borne 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. Johnny s im 
 perilled 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 
 my 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 au 
 my young friends have seen and despised. 
 
 In something less than two minutes, Johnny Grip- 
 pen, after muttering " foul play " backed out with a 
 bloody nose, as completely wmpped, and as thorough- 
 
THE FORTUNES Of KATY REDBURN. 133 
 
 ly " cowed down," as though lie had been fighting 
 with a royal Bengal tiger. His supremacy was at an 
 end, and there was danger that some other bold fel 
 low 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 g > about my busi 
 ness," 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 sev?n years. Just bear that in 
 mind." 
 
134 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 Johnny made no reply ; he was not in a condition 
 to make a reply, and the victor in the conquest de 
 parted, 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 en 
 counter. 
 
 " 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." 
 
 " O, 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 med 
 dled 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. 
 
 This was Katy s first day in mercantile life ; it hod 
 
THE FOBTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 135 
 
 been full of incidents, and she feared he/ path might 
 be a thorny one. But her light heart soon triumphed 
 over doubts and fears, and when she reached Wash 
 ington Street, she was as enthusiastic as ever, and as 
 ready for a trade. 
 
136 POOR AND PROUD. OB 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 XATY MEETS WITH EXTBAORDINAKY SUCCESS. 
 
 " BUY some candy ? " said Katy to the first gentle* 
 man she met. 
 
 He did not even deign ,o glance at her ; and five 
 or six attempts to sell a stick of candy were failures ; 
 but when she remembered the success that had fol 
 lowed 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. 
 
 44 Ho\v do you sell it ? " 
 * Cent a stick ; it is very nice. I sold fourteen 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY RED13URN. 137 
 
 sticks of i; to the mayor this forenoon. He said it 
 was good." 
 
 " You don t say so ? Did he give you a testimo 
 nial ? " 
 
 " No ; he gave me half a dollar." 
 
 The clerk laughed heartily at Katy s misapprehen 
 sion of his word, and his eye twinkled with mischief. 
 It was plain that he was not a great admirer of mo 
 lasses candy, and that he only wanted to amuse him 
 self at Katy s expense. 
 
 " You know what they do with quack medicines 
 don t you : " 
 
 41 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 forth the virties 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 
 12* 
 
138 POOR AND PBOUD, OK 
 
 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 sis 
 sticks for my grandchildren ? " 
 
 " For what ? " 
 
 " For my grandchildren." 
 
 " You are making fun of me," said Katy, who could 
 gee 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 
 Katy, struck with the force of the suggestion. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY RETURN. 139 
 
 t 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 af 
 ternoon 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 
 all asions 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 
 his conscience smote him, as he thought of her and 
 her blessed teachings in the far-off home of his child 
 hood. 
 
 " 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 
 sticks." 
 
 * But I am poor." 
 
HO POOR AND PKODD, OK 
 
 You wouldn t be poor if you saved up you* 
 money, and kept the Sabbath. Your mother " 
 
 " There, there ! that s enough. I will take a 
 dozen sticks ! " exclaimed the young man, impa 
 tiently 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 good-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 wan- 
 dered 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, 
 she could have seen him open his desk, and write 
 
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 for 
 tunes 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 some 
 times 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 pros 
 pect 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 ill- 
 natured response. 
 
 Was it possible she had come out with a dirty 
 face? No; she hat? washed herself Ihe last thing 
 
H2 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 she had done. It is true her clothes were shalby, 
 there was many a patch and darn upon her dress, 
 and its colors had faded out like the " last rose 
 of summer ; " but tLen the dress was clean. 
 
 " Buy some candy ? " said she to another, with a 
 sudden resolution not to be disturbed by the rude 
 ness of those she addressed. 
 
 He took a stick, and threw down a cent, with 
 out 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 manufac 
 tory, 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 
 the face of a positive prohibition, and at last she 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 143 
 
 decided M 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 ex 
 cept 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. Pedlera 
 and apple men go in without a question." 
 
 " I thought you wouldn t let people go in." 
 
 ^ We don t like to have visitors there, for they 
 sometimes do injury, and generally take off the at 
 tention of the men from their work. But you have 
 got so much conscience about 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 trou 
 ble. I can introduce myself." 
 
 But the bookkeeper led the way to the door, and 
 
144 POOR AXD PHOUD, OR 
 
 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 dis 
 posed to make a pleasant thing of her visit, and to 
 give her a substantial benefit. 
 
 " Now, my little girl," said the bookkeeper, i 
 " 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." 
 
 ** But I want some of that candy," said one of 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 145 
 
 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 sup 
 ply of the popular merchandise. 
 
 " O mother ! I have sold out all my candy, and I 
 want a lot more ! " exclaimed she, is 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 to 
 morrow." 
 
 "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 
 
 excitement that, agitated her. It was hard work U 
 
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146 POOR AND PROUD, OB 
 
 keep from running every step of the way ; but hcl 
 mother s advice must be heeded, and to some ex 
 tent she succeeded in controlling her violent im 
 pulses. As it was, she reached the piano-forte man 
 ufactory quite out of breath, and rushed into thw, 
 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 
 I tremble for you." 
 
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 " Why, mother ? " 
 
 " You get so excited, and run so, I am afraid if 
 will make you sick." KoJtj 
 
 " O, 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 ex 
 cited 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. " 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 to 
 morrow." 
 
 41 But, Katy, you must not do any more to-night 
 Vou will certainly be sick." 
 
 * I must make it, mother." 
 
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 " Your hands are very sore now." 
 
 They are better ; and 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 wash 
 erwoman, 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 wo 
 man, 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 01 
 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 arrange- 
 ment. Early in the evening the candy was all made, 
 and Katy s day s work was finished. Notwithstand- 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KA.TY REUBURN. 149 
 
 ing her repeated declaration that she was not tired, 
 the bed " felt good " to her, and she slept all the 
 moie soundly for the hard work and the good deeda 
 she had done. 
 
POOR AND PROUD OU 
 
 CHAPTER Xll. 
 
 KATY 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 suc 
 cess. Her grand idea hardly seemed like an experi 
 ment 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. 
 
 So far as Katy s person and manners were con 
 cerned, she was admirably adapted to the business 
 
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 ihe had chosen. She was rather small in stature foi 
 (ne of her age, but she was very well formed, and 
 her movements were agile and graceful. Her faco 
 was not as pretty as it might have been, but her ex 
 pression was artless and winning. Her light brown 
 liair hung in curls upon her shoulders, and contrib 
 uted not a little to make up the deficiency in what 
 the painters and sculptors would call a finely chis 
 elled face. 
 
 If she had been dressed in silk, and lace, and em 
 broidery, 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 suc 
 cess 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, 
 polite manners, her sweet voice, made sweet by a 
 
1,52 POOR AND PROUD. (>K 
 
 loving heart, that contributed most to her success. 
 But abo-ve 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 exceed 
 ingly well, and she had every reason to be grateful 
 tor her good fortune. 
 
 At the end of three weeks, rent day came round 
 again, and Dr. Flynch called for the money. To hia 
 utter astonishment, it was ready for him, and he de 
 parted without a single ill-natured word, though this 
 was, perhaps, because he had a wholesome rogard ibi 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY KEDBURN. 1 5i 
 
 the opinion of Mrs. Gordon. Two weeks later, Katj 
 found that her savings were sufficient to enable hex 
 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 re 
 ceived 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 mem 
 ory. Now, her mother was sick and sad ; she seldom 
 smiled. But some time she must have been a young 
 girl, and then she must have looked like that 
 
154 POOR AND PROUD, OK 
 
 portrait. She felt jast like asking Mrs. Gordon if 
 that was her portrait, but she did not dare to do such 
 a thing. While she was attentively watching tne 
 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 for 
 get 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, 
 
 " 0, 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 ? " 
 
 * Yes, ma am ; we have been able to earn monc} 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KA.TY REDBURN. 153 
 
 enough, and ( am very glad that 1 can pay it, re 
 plied 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." 
 
 " I shall feel very bad if you don t, and it will 
 make my mother very unhappy." 
 
 44 Nay, Katy, you must not be too proud." 
 
 " 1 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. 
 
 " Indeed you are," added Grace. 
 
156 POOR AND PROUD, OK 
 
 I snail 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 haa 
 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." 
 
 44 Is it possible ? The mayor told me you were a 
 little candy merchant, but I did not suppose you car 
 ried on such an extensive trade." 
 
 " I make a great deal of money ; almost five dol 
 lars 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 bettei 
 when it is paid." 
 
 Mrs. Gordon reluctantly received the four dollars. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 1^ 
 
 It was a very small sum to her, though a very large 
 one to Katy. She saw that the little candy mer 
 chant 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/ 
 
 " You are the queerest child I ever saw ! " ex- 
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168 POOR AND PROL D, OB 
 
 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. 4k 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 hie note, 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KA.TY REDBURN. 159 
 
 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 neglect 
 ed ; and, taking her tray, she called at his house as 
 Bhe passed up the court. 
 
 Tommy had been talking for a year about go 
 ing to sea, and had been for some time on the look 
 out 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 
 he saw his manly face, and thought how badly she 
 phould feel if he should go off on the ocean, and, 
 perhaps, be drowned in its vast depths He had 
 
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 toll you if Johnny Grip- 
 pen 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 does, 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, sfc 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 16 
 
 and her mother were in Boston ; and then he would 
 end over after them, and they could live in nib 
 fine house, and she should 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 his 
 tory ; and he wrote down the names she gave him. 
 Tommy 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 
 aates were smaller than usual, for her energy was 
 diminished in proportion to the sadness of her heart. 
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162 I A OK AND PROUD. OR 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 KATY EMPLOYS AN ASSISTANT. 
 
 As winter approached, Katy realized that the de 
 mand for molasses candy was on the increase, and 
 she found it necessary to make a much larger quan 
 tity. Mrs. Colvin still rendered her assistance " for 
 a consideration," and the supply was thus made to 
 correspond with the demand. 
 
 Mrs. Kedburn s health, which had begun to im 
 prove 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 efforta 
 brought many additional comforts to their humble 
 dwelling ; indeed, they had every thing that they 
 needed, and every thing that any poor person would 
 have required. But the fond mother had never been 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 1 G3 
 
 able to reconcile herself to the business which Katy 
 followed. She dreaded every day lest the tempta 
 tions to which it constantly exposed her might lead 
 her astray. She loved her daughter with all hci 
 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 re 
 sume her own labors, and let Katy abandon her 
 dangerous business. 
 
 Mrs. Redburn 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 
 could not be given up. 
 
164 POOR AND PllOt I). OK 
 
 Kacy 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 re 
 sulted from carrying the candy to hundreds of people 
 who did not want it enough to go after it. There 
 fore 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 John 
 ny, who stopped to talk with her. The Grippen 
 family consisted of eleven persons. The father was 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATT 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 prop 
 erly 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 
 A.nn. 
 
166 POOR AND IROUD, OB 
 
 " I dare say you could. Why don t you try, if you 
 want to ? " 
 
 44 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. 
 
 44 Yer. I am." 
 
 44 Yo JT face and hands are very dirty." 
 
 "W hat odds will that make ? " asked Ann, rather 
 indigrt mtly. 
 
 " 1 ) you suppose any body would eat a stick of 
 cand ifter you had touched it with those dirty fingers ? 
 Youx customers would be afraid of being poisoned." 
 
 "j s pose I can wash em," replied Ann, who 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 167 
 
 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." 
 
 44 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 ana 
 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 a 
 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." 
 
 44 Very well ; if you will come to my house to 
 morrow morning, I will let you have some candy." 
 
 44 How much will you give me for selling it ? 
 *sked Ann, 
 
168 
 
 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 "I can t tell now; I will think about it, and let 
 you know when you come." 
 
 Katy went her way, turning over and over in l.er 
 mind the scheme which Ann s application had sug 
 gested 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 busi 
 
 ness. 
 
 When she returned home at noon, she proposed tha 
 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 em 
 ploy 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 
 face and hands tolerably clean, and wearing a drcsn 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY RKDB17RX. 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 dis 
 advantages, 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 
 tell you, I won t." 
 
 " 1 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, doubt 
 fully, for it was contrary to the Grippen philosophy 
 jo 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 mus 
 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 instruc 
 tions. 
 
 "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 
 60 ; " 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. 
 
 " P^our 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 
 dozen sticks on it in an attractive manner. AfteJ 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 171 
 
 giving Ann some further instructions in the ait 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, how 
 ever, 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 down 
 hearted ; 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. 
 
 41 Not very lately." 
 
 "I should like to see him," added he, raising hia 
 eyes to her. 
 
 " Why don t you call upon him? You know where 
 he lives don t you ? " 
 
 Yes, but " 
 
 Master Simon paused, as though he did not like to 
 rxplain the reason. Katy waited for him to proceed ; 
 but aa he did not, she remarked that he looked very 
 wid, and she hoped nothing had happened. 
 
J72 POOR AXD PROUD, OK 
 
 * Something has happened," replied he, gloomily. 
 
 " Nothing bad, I hope." 
 
 " I have left my place at Sands & Co. s." 
 
 44 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 
 man 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 
 raised your salary." 
 
 " No, Katy," added Simon, bitterly. " Mr. Sands 
 (old 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 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBUKX. 173 
 
 just thinking whether my friend the mayor couldn t 
 help me into a situation." 
 
 " I dare say he can. Why don t you call and 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." 
 
 44 I was thinking of something, Master Simon," 
 said Katy, after a pause. 
 
 44 What, Katy ? " 
 
 " I make four or five dollars a week. " 
 
 " Is it possible ! " 
 
 44 If you have a mind to sell candy, I will furnisn 
 you aL you want, so that you can make at least three 
 dollars a week." 
 
174 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 Tne 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 my 
 self?" 
 
 " 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 foi 
 you, Master Simon, I shall be very glad to do so." 
 
THE FOKTUXES OF KATY KKDMURN. 175 
 
 " Thank you, Katy ; you mean right, but never 
 speak to me about selling candy again. I think you 
 can help me." 
 
 "Then 1 will." 
 
 " I will see you again when I get my plan ar 
 ranged. In the mean time, if you happen to meet 
 my friend the mayor, just speak a good word for 
 me." 
 
 " I will ; " and Katv left him. 
 
176 POOR AND PROUD. OB 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 MASTER SIMON 8NEED MAKES A MISTAKE. 
 
 CONTRARY to the expectations of Katy and hei 
 mother, Ann Grippen returned at noon with ner 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 be 
 long 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 
 clean, and " 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 171 
 
 " Well, I guess I know all about that," in 
 terrupted Ann, who did not like this style of 
 remark. 
 
 " Katy," said her mother, who was sitting in hei 
 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 
 wise parson. 
 
 * 1 suppose you would like to go out again 
 
178 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 this afternoon," resumed Katy, joining her assist 
 ant again. 
 
 " I don t care if I do." 
 
 " Well, come this afternoon, and you shall have 
 pome 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." 
 
 " Why, 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. Yog 
 must not think too much of yourself, Katy." 
 
 "No danger of that, mother." 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 179 
 
 " 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 re 
 spected, 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. 
 
 11 You will be, if you employ a dozen girls to sell 
 candy for you." 
 
 After Katy 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 Sr.eed 
 had called to see her, and ghe immediately hastened tc 
 
J80 POOR AND FBOUD, OS 
 
 his house. When she knocked, he came to the door 
 and invitc.d 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 
 angry with me for doing so, and for that reason re 
 fused the testimonial. They saw through it all, and 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 181 
 
 understood my position. When I snoke 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 acquaint 
 ance. 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 Si 
 mon." 
 
 "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 Kunn & Reed s, I am sure 
 
 16 
 
1 81! POCB. AND PROUD, OB 
 
 they will appreciate me, and consider it a lucky da\ 
 on which they engaged me." 
 
 ** If you ant me to go to the mayor s house with 
 you, I will," said Katy, who did not clearly com 
 prehend Simon s wishes. 
 
 " Well, 1 think I will not go myself," replied 
 Simon. 
 
 "Why not?" 
 
 " 1 do not like to place myself in a humiliating 
 posture before great men. If I were mayor of Bos 
 ton, 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 teL 
 him, too, that I am a gentlemanly person, of pleas 
 ing address." 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 183 
 
 " But I can t remember all that." interposed 
 katy. 
 
 44 Tell him what you can recollect, then. He is 
 an easy, good-natured man, and will give you the 
 testimonial at once/ 
 
 * k 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 con 
 siderable 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 orna 
 ment 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. 
 
 Mayor of Boston." 
 
184 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 ** I have left a blank space for his honor s signa 
 ture," 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," 
 Baid 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 gen 
 tlemanly 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 
 her hand. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 18" 
 
 " Thank you, sir. I have brought this candy foi 
 Master Freddie." 
 
 44 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, uncon 
 sciously 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 ? " 
 
 44 A paper, sir. You remember Master Simon 
 Sr.eed ? " 
 
 44 No, I don t." 
 
 * The young man at Sands & Co. s." 
 
 44 0, yes ; the young gentleman that uses so many 
 long words." 
 
 " He has left his place, and wants to get another." 
 
 44 Has he left it ? Why was that ? " 
 
 44 He asked for more wages. He has found 
 another place, which he can have if he can get a tes 
 timonial." 
 
 44 Let him ask Sands & Co." 
 
 44 They won t give him one, because they are so 
 angry with him for leaving them." 
 16* 
 
186 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 - That indeed." 
 
 " Master Simon wants you to give him one, * con 
 tinued 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. 
 
 " Does he, indeed," laughed the mayor. " He is 
 very modest." 
 
 " He said, as you were his friend, you would not 
 object to 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 man 
 ner, 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 
 Mr. Simon Sneed." 
 
rHE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 187 
 
 "I hope I haven t done any thing wrong, sir? M 
 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 nothing 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 hei 
 position ; but at the time fixed, she was at the store 
 of Sands & Co., where the mayor soon joined her. 
 
 "Now, Katy, you shall hear what his employers 
 
{88 POOR AXI) PROUD, OK 
 
 say of Master Simon," said he ; and she followed him 
 into the store. 
 
 The mayor stated his business, and inquired con 
 cerning 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 con 
 fessed 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 undelete"- d 
 him, and she went home determined to tell hiir &J 
 that had passed between the mayor and herself. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 KATT GETS A LETTER FROM LIVERPOOL. 
 
 MASTER Simon Sneed sat at the window when 
 Katy returned, and she had to tell him all about it. 
 She pitied him, 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 un 
 derstand," said she, for she was not a little disgusted 
 with Simon s big words, now she knew how much 
 mischief they had done him. 
 
190 POOR AND PROUD, OS 
 
 * 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. 
 
 " Go on, Katy ; I may expect any thing after what 
 you have said," replied rinnoii, 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 REDI3URN. 191 
 
 Then you weiit to the store ? " 
 
 " We did ; and when the mayor asked Mr. Sands 
 about you, he said you were honest, and did yom 
 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 J 
 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 
 knew very well if I should step into a rival establish 
 
192 POOH AND PflOUD, OR 
 
 ment, I should take half his trade with me," con 
 tinued 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 
 enow 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 REPBDKX. 193 
 
 " To carry her bundle ; but that was all a pre 
 tence." 
 
 " 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 en 
 try ; 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 Le 
 so silly. She wanted to tell him that he was a greut 
 fool, for she feared he would never find it out him 
 self ; but he was older than she was, and she did no! 
 think it quite proper to do so. 
 17 
 
POOR AND PKOUD, OR 
 
 " I must go now," said Katy. * If you don t find 
 any thing you like better, you can sell candy, you 
 
 KI10W." 
 
 " 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 pitia 
 ble 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 
 T,jith candv. Katy instructed them very modestly io 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATV REBBJRX. 195 
 
 Iho ait 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 sup 
 ply 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 aft.er 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 
 longer travelled about the streets herself. By the 
 
Iy6 POOR AND PROUD, OK 
 
 first of December, Mrs. Redburn had so far recov 
 ered 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." 
 
 " What is it ? Do tell me." 
 
 I have been told that a little girl, who sells 
 candy, has been playing tricks upon passers-by in 
 the streets ; that she tells lies and deceives them." 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY HEPBURN. 197 
 
 * I never did such a thirty ! " protested Raty, her 
 cheeks covered with the blush of indignation. 
 
 Mrs. Gordon explained the deception, and spoke 
 ir 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, tri 
 umphantly. 
 
 44 1 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 in 
 quire, you will find that I have been in school every 
 day this week." 
 
 " I believe you, Katy. But can you tell me who 
 it was ? " 
 
 * 1 don t know, but I will find out ; " and before 
 *be took her leave she told the ladies how uh 
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198 POOR AND PROUP, OR. 
 
 conducted bar 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 busi 
 ness 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 seiz 
 ing 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 pa/>t 
 flirted before her. Katy broke the seal, and as thia 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATV REDBURN 199 
 
 letter contained some very important information, my 
 young readers may look over her shoulder while sLa 
 reads it. It was as follows : 
 
 "LIVERPOOL, 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 5 ou enjoying the same blessing. I arrived 
 to Liverpool safe and sound, and when I get home, 1 
 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 ; 
 BO 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 1 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 bad 
 only two daughters ; that one of them had run away 
 with her father s clerk, and the other was married 
 ind gone to America. He said her husband belonged 
 
200 POOR AXl) PROUD, OR 
 
 to Baltimore. This was all he knew about it, and all 
 1 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 tip 
 top voyage over. No more at present from 
 Your affectionate friend, 
 
 THOMAS 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. Red- 
 burn 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 
 blasted. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY RUDBUKtf. 201 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 ANH 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 
 nad 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 fol 
 lowed 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 whole 
 sale merchant, but the dignity of the trade depended 
 upon her efforts in seeking the offender. Ann 
 jntered various shops, and seemed to be having very 
 
202 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 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 al 
 ley, 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 
 ehe had broken the nice sticks of candy into 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, and 
 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 
 could not possibly be repaired. 
 
THE FOKTUNKS OF KATY REDBURX. 203 
 
 " What is the matter, little girl ? " asked a benevo 
 lent 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. O, 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 
 he ll kill me I know he will " 
 
204 POOR AND PROUD, OK 
 
 " 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. 
 
 44 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 as 
 sistant would do next, and she followed her down 
 Hanover Street and saw her stop before the Amen- 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 205 
 
 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 gen- 
 tJeman, who presently appeared at the door, address 
 ing another who was 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 
 r-ee how it is done." 
 
 With this announcement of his purpose, he 
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206 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 accosted Ann, who told him about the same story 
 she had told the lady, and he finally gave her the 
 counterfeit half dollar, which \nn did not suspect 
 was a had 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 unfre 
 quented 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 them 
 selves on a door stone, and as they talked and 
 *aughed about the deceit, they ate the pieces of candy, 
 
THK FORTUNES OF KATY KEDBURN. 207 
 
 " There," said Ann, " I have made a dollar and ten 
 cents this afternoon. You don t catch me walking til 
 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, fur 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 ebout it." 
 
 " Why don t you try it now ? " 
 
 " 1 would if my candy wasn t broken " 
 
 ** I will let you have mine." 
 
 " Then I will." 
 
 44 Give me fourteen cents." 
 
 " I will when I ve done with it." 
 
 " No, you don t," laughed Julia, who justly inferred 
 
1208 POOR AXD PROUD, OR 
 
 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 gam^ 
 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 deoeived, 
 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 
 cause of hr hitter sorrow. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 209 
 
 * I haven t sold out," sobbed Ann. 
 
 "What if you haven t ? Why need you cry abou; 
 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, hoo ! She ll beat me to death ! O, 
 dear me ! I only got ten cents." 
 
 " Why 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. O, I wish I was dead ! " 
 
 " Well, 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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210 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " Don t you believe her," sobbed Ann, still pru 
 dently keening 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 lledburn?" 
 demanded Ann, angrily, and now forgeting her woe 
 and her tears. 
 
 "You speak v *r* positively," said the gentleman 
 to Katy ; " anc 1 if \vnat you say is true, something 
 enould be done abo.ir. it." 
 
 " She is telling lies ! " exclaimed Ann, much excited. 
 
 " We can soon determine, for here comes a police 
 man, 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 sue made a bad mistake, for, not 
 seeing in what direction the officer was approaching, 
 she ran into the \uryjuwb of the lion. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. L ll 
 
 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 re 
 quested the officer to search her, and thus decide 
 whether Katy told the truth or not. He readily con 
 sented, and on turning out Ann s pocket, produced 
 the two half dollars, one of which the gentleman de 
 cided 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 Ameri 
 can 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 wai 
 in earnest. 
 
 " Please don t do that ! " said Katy, who had not 
 foreseen this consequence of the game. 
 
 " I must ; it is downright swindling." 
 
212 POOR AKD PROUD, OR 
 
 " 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 nui 
 sance. 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 tc 
 Ann s. 
 
 H ambled by the peril from which she had just 
 escaped, Ann promised never to be guilty of playing 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN*. 213 
 
 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 ar 
 rested and punished for what she had done, if she 
 attempted to retaliate upon her. 
 
 Katy was shocked at the wickedness of her com 
 panion ; 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 
 aumility, and the little moralist hoped the event 
 would result in good to her. 
 
214 POOR AND PROUD. DR 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 THE SUN SETS, AND THE NIGHT COMES ON. 
 
 HAVING recorded the steps by which Katy had 
 carried forward her now 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 busi 
 ness increased, and Katy s labors as a saleswoman 
 were withdrawn, the expenses increased, and the 
 profits were proportionally less. And then, neither 
 Mrs. Kedburn nor her daughter had a faculty for 
 saving up much money ; so that, though they made 
 considerable, their prosperity permitted new demands 
 to be made upon the purse. They hired two more 
 rooms ; they replaced the clothing and furniture 
 
THK F011TUXES OF KATY KKI)HURN T . 215 
 
 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, 
 mu^h better than people in their circumstances oughl 
 to have lived. Therefore, notwithstanding theii 
 prosperity, they had saved 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 com 
 menced business, was quite enough to render them 
 very thankful to the Giver of all good for the rich 
 blessings he had bestowed upon them. 
 
 These were not all temporal blessings ; if they 
 nad been, their success would only have been paitial 
 and temporary, their prosperity only an outward 
 beeming, 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 merchan 
 dise. Both Katy and her mother, while they were 
 gathering the treasures of this world, were also 
 
216 POOR AND PKOril), OR 
 
 ** laying up treasures in heaven, where neither moth 
 nor rust doth corrupt." Want had taught them ita 
 hard lesson, and they had come out of the fiery fur 
 nace 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 en 
 couraged. 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, ex 
 posed 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 
 u pon to decide between the right and the wrong ; 
 \\Len 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 after- 
 cvards be evil. But the great experiences of life, 
 vvhich generally come in more mature years, had 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN". 217 
 
 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 benn compelled to grapple with its duties 
 and its temptations. As her opportunities to be 
 good and do good were increased, so was her lia 
 bility 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 Liver 
 pool, 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. 
 Redburn and her daughter listened with much satis 
 faction. He remained at home two months, and 
 Ihen 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 
 Le 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 mis 
 fortunes 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 would never vol 
 untarily 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 littlr 
 farm in the country, tempted her with an offer of 
 marriage, and her conscience (1 suppose) would not 
 let her refuse it. Katy, though she was a woman, so 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDIU RN. 
 
 far as the duties and responsibilities of life were con 
 cerned, 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. Oolvin s departure, for they were de 
 prived 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 strrve 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. Per 
 haps, she reasoned, it was quite as well that Mrs. 
 Colvin had gone, for if she could pull the candy her 
 self, 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 
 proud to do so, though her wrists and shoulders 
 
220 POOR Axn PROUD, OH 
 
 pained her severely every night after the work waa 
 done. 
 
 This toil weighed heavily on llaty 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 con 
 sequences 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 dis 
 charge 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 re 
 ceived 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- 
 olied with half a dollar s worth of candy, did not ap 
 pear to account for the proceeds. Here was a loss 
 of a dollar in one day. Such things as these are tho 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY RKDBURN. 
 
 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, anx 
 iously, 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. Red- 
 burn, " 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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222 POOR AXD PROUD, OH 
 
 " What is your plan, mother ? " asked Katy. 
 
 " We will sell them the candy, instead of employ 
 ing them to sell it for us." 
 
 "But they won t pay us." 
 
 " Let them pay in advance. We will sell them the 
 oandy at eight cents a dozen. Any girl, who wants 
 two 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 re 
 ceive 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 them 
 selves. 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 
 themselves for the working of the new system. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 223 
 
 The girls were not all dishonest, or even a ma 
 jority of them, but the plan must be applied to all. 
 Most of them went home, therefore, and shortly re 
 turned with money enough 10 buy one or two dozen 
 sticks. As Mrs. Kedburn had predicted, the effect 
 of the adoption of the new plan was unfavorable for 
 a few days. The obstinate onos <vould not buy, hop 
 ing to make the wholesale dea?ei 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 be 
 fore, 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 experi 
 ence 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 
 amile. 
 
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 in 
 juring 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, 1 
 shall not let you pull any more candy." 
 
 " Shall I save my own health at the expense of 
 yours ? " 
 
 " I shall get along very well. I feel very strong." 
 
 " You are not very strong ; I have reproached my 
 self 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. We 
 are neither of us fit to perform such hard labor, and 
 both of us must be relieved from it. I shall go out 
 r o-morro\v, and make a business of finding a person 
 to do this work for us." 
 
 Mrs. Redburn did try, but she tried in vain. It 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 22,> 
 
 wa odd, queer, strange work, as the women called it v 
 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 tne night before Christmas, when 
 a large demand for candy was anticipated, and both 
 of them had worked very hard, Mrs. Redbnrn 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 restora 
 tion of her mother ; and when she was partially con 
 scious, she attempted to conduct her to the bed. 
 The poor woman s strength was all gone, and 
 
226 POOR AXD PROUD, OH 
 
 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 phy 
 sician 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 
 the night of adversity was coming on. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBUHN. 227 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 KATY STRUGGLES BRAVELY THROUGH A SERIES Ot 
 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 Christ 
 mas, and all over the Christian world arose pirans 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. 
 
 " 1 am here, mother," replied she, bending over her, 
 and endeavoring to anticipate her unspoken desire. 
 
228 POOK A.XD PROUD, oa 
 
 " Is the hymn book on the table ? " 
 u Here it is, mother." 
 
 Y- 
 
 " Won t you read me a hymn ? " ,5 - " 
 4k 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. " i s 
 Katy opened the book to the beautiful hymn com 
 mencing 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 faca 
 showed how deep and pure was the consolation sha 
 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 mor 
 tality. How blessed the hope that pours its heavenly 
 balm into the wounds of the sufferer ! 
 
 Poor Katy was painfully impressed by the appear 
 ance and conduct of her mother. he had never 
 before seen her so calm and resigned to those dread 
 ful sufferings. She had heard her complain and 
 murmur at her hard lot, and wonder why she should 
 be thus sorely afflicted. She feared that some appalU 
 
THE FOUTUXES OF KATY JREDBURN. 229 
 
 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 
 bo so calm while she endured so mucii. 
 
 " 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 c-in 
 almost believe that the triumph of faith has already 
 begun in my soul. The world looks very dim to me." 
 
 " Nay, mother, dcu t say so." 
 
 ** I only mean that as heaven seems nearer, my 
 hold upon earth is less strong. You must be very 
 resolute, my 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 trou 
 bling, and the weary are at rest/ If it were not fci 
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230 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 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." 
 
 " O, no, mother ! It cannot be ! " exclaimed Katy, 
 gazing earnestly, through her tearful eyes, upon tho 
 pale but flushed cheek of the patient sufferer. 
 
 " 1 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 dis 
 appointment 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. 
 
 "Nay, child, I am looking ca the bright side," re 
 turned Mrs. Redburn, faintly. " Every thing looks 
 
THE FORTUNES OP KATY REDBURN. 2 J 3l 
 
 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 
 tve do for candy ? " 
 
 " We cannot make any now ; my mothei is verj 
 eick." 
 
232 POOR AND PROUD, OB 
 
 44 1 get my living by selling candy, v 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 re 
 cently 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 havfe 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 de 
 prived of the means of support. She trembled as 
 she thought of the future, even when she looked for 
 ward only a few weeks. There was not more than 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBCRX. 233 
 
 ten dollars in the house, for they had but a short 
 time before paid for their winter s coal, and at con 
 siderable expense largely replenished their wardrobes. 
 The rent would be due in a week, and it would re 
 quire 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. B it it was of no use to 
 repine ; she had only to make the best of her situ 
 ation. 
 
 A.mid all these discouragements came a bright ray 
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234 POOR AND PROUD, OH 
 
 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. 
 He looked very serious, which Mrs. Iledburn inter 
 preted as unfavorable to her recovery, not consider 
 ing 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 pro 
 cure 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," re 
 plied the doctor, with professional indirectness. 
 
 " I beg of you, doctor, do not conceal from me mj 
 true situation." 
 
 " I cannot foresee the result, my good woman 
 
 Do you think there is any hope for me? " 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REI/j3URN. 235 
 
 " 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 youi 
 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 alarm 
 ingly 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 
 her, and it sent a thrill of joy to her heart. 
 
236 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " I was low-spirited this morning, Katy," said 
 Mrs. Redburn, when the physician had gone. " I 
 really felt as though my end was rapidly approach 
 ing. 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 ol 
 the next day s candy. She was nearly worn out by 
 watching and anxiety, and not fit *o peiform such 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURV. 2>1 
 
 hard work ; but weak and weary as she felt, hei 
 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. Kcdburn was very restless during 
 the afternoon, and could not be left alone for more 
 than a short time at once. Mrs. Howard had prom 
 ised 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 
 awakened in an hour. In this manner she obtained 
 
238 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 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 un 
 able 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 a 
 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 
 to be used in the day of sorrow and trial. Aftei 
 
THE FORTUNES OF RATY REDliURN. 23 j 
 
 tonsiderabb debate with herself, she decided to ap 
 ply 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 re 
 garded 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 ae 
 security for the payment of the debt. 
 
240 PoOR AND PROUD, OB 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 KATY RESORTS TO A LOAN. 
 
 KATY 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 more 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 S f reet did 
 she stop short, resolved to get the money of some 
 other person the grocer, Mr. Sneed, or even of a 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KAIY REDBURN. 241 
 
 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 beil. 
 
 44 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. 
 
 44 Good morning to you, Katy. Are you nervom 
 this morning ? " said he. 
 
 44 Good morning, Michael. I am not very nervous." 
 
 4 I thought you would pull down the boll," he 
 added, good naturedly. 
 
 " I didn t mean to, Michael ; I hope you will ex 
 cuse me if I did any harm." 
 
 4k Not a bit of harm ; but you re looking as sober 
 as a deacon. What ails you, Katy ? " 
 
 44 1 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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242 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " Indeed ? I m sorry to hear that of nor ; " and 
 Michael, whatever he felt, looked very much con 
 cerned 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 w-t.nt 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." 
 
 * No ; 1 must see Mrs. Gordon." 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY BEDBURX. 243 
 
 " If it s any nice preserve or jelly you want, just 
 lay the word, and I ll bring it to you at on2e." 
 
 " 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." 
 
 14 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 
 servant, and perhaps Mrs. Gordon would not like it. 
 
244 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " I thank you, Michael ; you are very kind, but ] 
 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 ser 
 vant had a kind heart, and really desired to serve her. 
 Was il 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 cherish 
 ing 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 
 etory," said she, conquering her repugnance. 
 
 " Just come in the house, then ; " and he led her 
 into the sitting room ; being, in the absence of the 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 245- 
 
 Bi stress, the lord and master of the mansion, and 
 feeling quite at home in that position. 
 
 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 hei 
 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 a* 
 this time to-morrow, you shall have the whole twenty 
 dollars/ H^^VM, 
 
 " Thank you, Michael." 
 
 44 There s six dollars ; take it, Katy, and my bless 
 ing with it." 
 
 44 Only three dollars, Michael," replied Katy. 
 firmly. 
 
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216 POOR AXD 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 \\ atch, 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 hia 
 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, triumph 
 antly. " You couldn t make her take it, if you try a 
 month. Don t I know Mrs. 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 
 .t with me to America ? " 
 
 44 If you will not take it, Michael " 
 
 " I won t " 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY HEPBURN. 247 
 
 * 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 neve! 
 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 im 
 pulses 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 kind 
 ness and charity that pervaded the house had inspired 
 even the servants. 
 
 11 Where have you been, Katy ? " asked Mrs. Red- 
 burn, as she entered the sick chamber, and Mrs. 
 Sneed hastened home. 
 
 " I have been to Mrs. Gordon." 
 
 " What for ? " 
 
 "Katy did not like to tell. She knew it would 
 
POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 make her mother feel very unhappy to know that she 
 had borrowed money of Mrs. Gordon s servant. 
 kk 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 ? " 
 nhe asked. " Ah, I fear I was right. We have no 
 money ! Our business is gone ! Alas,- we have noth 
 ing to hope for ! " 
 
 " O, 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 
 didn t want it to look like charity, so I was going to 
 
THri FORTUNKS OK KATY REDBUBN. 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 not all gone, when she 
 fully understood the meaning of the question. Per 
 haps 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. 
 
 44 Of whom?" 
 
 44 Of Michael." 
 
 44 Who is he ? " 
 
 Mrs. Gordon s man. 
 
 4 O Katy ! How could you do so ?" sighed Mrs 
 Redburn. 
 
250 POOR A.ND PROUD, OR 
 
 " I couldn t help it, mother. He would make mb 
 take it ; " and she gave all the particulars of her 
 interview with Michael, and reviewed the considera 
 tions 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." 
 
 Katy read the whole psalm, and followed it with 
 
THE FOKTUXES OF KATY REDBUR>. 25] 
 
 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 them 
 selves 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 re- 
 quest her immediate attendance ; and that his mis 
 tress 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 cov.ld come 
 in an hour. Michael hastened home with tae intel 
 ligence that Mrs. Redburn was better, and Katy soon 
 followed him. 
 
2.52 POOR AND TROUD. 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 Balti 
 more." 
 
 " You are very kind, ma am." 
 
 " Did Dr. Flynch call upon you at the first of the 
 month ? " 
 
 " Yes, ma am ; and we paid the rent as usual," re 
 plied Katy. 
 
 " I am sorry you did so, Katy ; you should have 
 told him that you were not in a condition to pay the 
 rent." 
 
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 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 1 
 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 con 
 siderable 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 
 
 14 1 suppose you will want to give your note this 
 time." 
 
 " I don t care about giving a note, but I mean in 
 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 mer 
 chandise. 
 
 " 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 
 eecmed 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 feel 
 ings for all the world." 
 
 " You did not hurt my feelings ; you are so kind 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 255 
 
 to me that I could not help crying. I suppose 1 am 
 very silly." 
 
 44 No, you are not, Katy ; now dry up your tears, 
 and tell us all about it," added Mrs. Gordon, in sooth 
 ing tones. " How long has your mother been sick ? " 
 
 44 Almost two weeks." 
 
 " What ails her ? " 
 
 * 4 She has got a fever ; but she is much better to 
 day. The doctor says she hasn t got it very "bad; 
 but she has been very sick, I think." 
 
 44 Who takes care of her ? " 
 
 4k I do, ma am." 
 
 You ! She must need a great deal of attention. 
 But who takes care of her at night ? " 
 
 44 1 do, ma am. I have been up a great deal every 
 night." 
 
 44 Poor child ! It is enough to wear you out " 
 
 4 * I wouldn t mind it at all, if I had nothing else to 
 trouble me." 
 
 kk What other troubles have you ? " 
 
 * I can t make any candy now, and haven t made 
 my for nearly a fortnight ; so that we have no money 
 L-oming in. We spent nearly all we had in buying 
 
21* POOE AND PKOUD, 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." 
 
 "No, 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 you 
 and 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 
 her eye. " You know I didn t mean that." 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 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, at 
 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 dis 
 tress yourself to pay it again," continued the kind 
 lady, as she took out her purse. 
 
 " 1 will not distress myself, but I will pay it as 
 soon as 1 can." 
 
 44 You must not be too proud." 
 
 44 No, ma am; but just proud enough." 
 
 44 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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258 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 " Yes ; for there is a false pride, which makes peo 
 ple 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 do 
 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 
 yen, Katy, to sec your mother." 
 
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 " You are very kind, Miss Grace." 
 
 " Here is the money," added Mrs. Gordon, hand 
 ing 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 pool 
 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, OH 
 
 ** 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 1 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 ? " said Mrs. Gordon as shfl 
 ooh the treasure. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 26\ 
 
 * 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, run 
 ning to her side. " Are you ill ? " 
 
 ** No, Grace ; that inscription ! " replied Mrs. Gor 
 don, 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 
 Borne measure recovered from the sudden shock, 
 she pointed to the inscription on the back of the 
 watch : 
 
 "M. G. 
 
 to 
 
 J. R. 
 All for the Best* 
 
262 POOR AXI) PROUD, OR 
 
 " What doos it mean, mother ? I do not see any 
 thing very strange about that." 
 
 " I have seen this watch before," she replied, stop 
 ping 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. 
 
 k It was my father s." 
 
 " Where did your father get it ? Did you ever 
 hear your mother say ? " 
 
 " Yes, ma am ; her father, who was a rich Liver 
 pool 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 hoi 
 Bide, and warmly embraced her. " Your mother, 
 Katy, is my sister, I have scarcely a doubt." 
 
 " Why. mother ! Is it possible ? " exclaimed 
 Grace. 
 
THE FOTITTTVKS OF KATY REDBURX. -(>3 
 
 " Tt is even so. Mrs. Iledburn, whose name we 
 hf.ve 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." 
 
 * 1 almost knew it." 
 
 " 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 pov 
 erty 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 wag 
 evident she had a vein of the romantic in her com 
 position. 
 
264 POOR AND PHOUI), 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 disap 
 pointment crossing her animated features. 
 
 k 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 
 lady of Temple Street had a heart, a warm and trua 
 
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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 fa 
 tigue 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 Liv 
 erpool that he had an engagement in Montreal. 
 This place was thoroughly canvassed, but without 
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266 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 euccess. No trace of the runaways could be dis 
 covered. Agents were sent to various parts of Amer 
 ica, 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 gentle 
 man from Baltimore. He was then a widower, with 
 one child Grace Gordon. She had come to Amer 
 ica 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 por- 
 tfon 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 ap 
 peared, 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 
 woman than on hers. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURX. 267 
 
 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. Kedburn might be her sister ; but it was 
 declared that stranger things than that had hap 
 pened. 
 
 Katy continued to go to school with great regu 
 larity, 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 respect 
 fully 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 
 soon found an opportunity to discharge him. 
 
263 POOR AND PROUD, OR 
 
 Having carried Katy through her principal trou 
 bles, 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. 
 
THE Ft7A,r\.J*E3 OK KATT REDBURN. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 KATY 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 ma 
 tron 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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270 POOR 
 
 I am sorry I cannct inform my young lady 
 friends he w 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 sun 
 dry French milliners and dress-makers to exceed her 
 usual simplicity at the party and I cordially com 
 mend her example to all young ladies. 
 
 While Miss Redburn sat. at the window, the door 
 bell rang with great violence ; and Michael yes, Mi 
 chael 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 
 not been able to keep up with his mother. 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY KEDBURN. 271 
 
 " Come, aunty," said little Tommy, who persisted 
 in calling her by this title, as he rolled up to Miss 
 Redburi , 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." 
 
 f 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 tele- 
 graphed." 
 
 " Has she ? " exclaimed Katy, a deep blush suf 
 fusing 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 car 
 riage that waited them. 
 
 Of course you know Captain Howard, reader? lie 
 has followed the seas only eleven years ; and though 
 but twenty-five years old, he is the commander of a 
 fine clipper, and sails in the Liverpool line. He is 
 frequently quoted as an example of what patient 
 
272 POOK AND PROUD, OZ 
 
 perseverance will accomplish ; for, with verj little aid 
 from friends, he has worked his way from the fore 
 castle 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 de 
 parted 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 tail and very slim gentleman, ele 
 gantly dressed, approached. 
 
 " You do me honor, madam. It is the superlative 
 felicity of my sublunary existence to congratulate you 
 
THE FORTUNES OF KATY REDBURN. 273 
 
 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, whon they saw Mrs. McCarty so warmly re 
 ceived by the bride ; but she did not care who laughed 
 or who sneered ; she was not too proud to welcome, 
 
271 POOR AT*D PROUD. 
 
 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 op 
 posed to crowded rooms and late hours, we may aa 
 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. How 
 ard as a passenger. 
 
 And now, my young friends, adieu. If you are 
 poor, don t be too proud to work at any honest occu 
 pation ; 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 " POOB AND 
 
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