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E'Office in Hamilton Street, one door liat,t of the German Reformed Church, nearly opposite the "Friedenshote" Office. fillento-wil Ste,adein-y. The Trustees of this institution, respect fully announce that the Fall Term will cant /110ICC on Thursday Ist of September. Under—the supervision of the present Principal, Mr. .1.. Y. Gregory, the school has received a liberal patronage, and has at tained a position of the highest rank. During the vacation, very great additions and improvements have been made to the Academy buildings and furniture, and pu pils will now enjoy all the advantage:: of a thorough course of instruction, earnest and efficient teachers, and spacious and conveni ent school rooms. GIDEON I BACH, Tuomns WrAvra, I I3oard 1 I ER:11 AN BUDD, TIIO3IAS B. W ILSON, of \VILLIAm H. CRAIG, NATHAN AlETzn ra, .Trustees RonEnT E. WnrcurritJ Allentown August 21. ql) St.l:l The undeibigned hereby notify their Mends and the public in general that tlwy have removed their 11?och•ange Office from the front room in the Odd Fellow' Hall, to the new three story Ludding on the tiorth ert.tt corner of market square, where they are prepared to transact Bank and Exchange business upon. the most ronsonnble terms ‘VNI. & Co. Allentown, Sept. 14. !I-4w •li. E. ltyright, A Tik O.IINEV & COUNSEL:IAR AT LAW' Office No. 52, East Hamilton Street; in the Boreugh of Allentown. Mr. Wright speaks the German language, consequently can be consulted in that lan -gunge. Allentown, Oct. 5. WANT.ED. • Timothy Hay, Wheat, Rye, Corn and Oats, for which the highest market price will be paid by PRETZ, GUTEI & CO. 11—tin• May 4, 1853 AILDIUDII°3 TOT 1111 In the Oyhans Court of Lehigh County. In the matter of the Account of Charles Saeger, Ext cuter, &c., of the last will and testament of Daniel New hard, deed. And now, September 1, 1853, on motion of Mr. Runk, the Court appoint John F. Ruhe, Eq., an Auditor to audit and resettle the said account and make distribution ac cording to law and report to the next stated orphans Court including, all the evidence which may be submitted before him. • From the Records. TESTE.-N. M ETZG ER, Clerk The undersigned auditor will meet for the purpose of his appointment, on Thursday the 3rd day of November, at 10 o'clock A. M., nt his office in flamilton Street, Allen town, those that may be interested can at tend if they think proper. " J. F. lIIJUIE, Auditor October 19 41 1 1311b11° , 3 51.0111114 In the Orphans Court of Lehigh cr. County. In the matter of the Account of Conrad Wert, Administrater, of the estate•of Catharine Farber, dec'd. And now August 30th, 1853, the Court appoint Boas Hausman, an Auditor to audit and resettle the said account and make dis tribution according to law and report .to the next stated Orphans Court including all the evidence which may be submitted before him. . From the Records. TESTS.-N. KiTzotn, Cleric ~The,,untlersigned auditor, above named will attend to the duties of his appointment, on . Saturday the' Igth day of November, next, at tO .o'cle,ek ,i n the forenoon, at the Ileuse of D,,otni C. Peter, , in W,ashington tokiinstiiP;wh,e,u and w,,here all persim terested may attend ii'NeYthink proper.. BOAS . 0.111851 AN, Auditor. October 19. • • 11•••-4 w .!9 : 11 Pit LT TIWG, Neotly,e*?ted at ihp ()Wee," A FAIVIIiA NEWSPAPER, Mcpartinciit. October Oh, hehniiful.October ! Thou art with us once again ; With the flash upon thy forehead, And thy finger's purple stain; With thy amber girdl-td vesture, And thy ruby.doned train. Round the edges of the woodland, Where the outer boughs are red, Forth by threes, the glossy chestnuts Creep from many a downy bed; And the carved and ~ • ilvery walnut Lights the stubble 'Heath thy tread. Though thr sere and scented ordirtrd, ••• .Where thy lingering feet have passed, Mellow heaps ate bathed in blushes By thy scarlet mantle ca,t ; But the rich and ripened russet Wears thy soberest hue, and last Broad, through many a cottage en..ement S , ri;nrns the unclierlirred light to - tat: Long the veiling vines grew gorgeous With the hectic of decay, Till the Autumn wind, last midnight, Swept them moaningly away. Pods are bursting in the garden,. Till the shivelled seeds are seen Grapei, arc black upiin the trellis, Quinces hanging golden.green— From her apron dropping bait:ice, Come 'he bounteous Autumn queen MB Yet, oh, bra utiful October ! To the land-sick one at sea, To the desert wandrred, pininc For a far off whispering tree, 1) st thou bring the weary yearning That thou bringest unto Inc. All the lung and lightstime Summer, I have chased a Miry dream I have waked 10 see the llitimg Of its light Wings' palling glimmer Like the Mint, delusive glimmer 01 a star Lyon a stream. In thy lights, the vizion faded; When thy roiliest falling leaf, From the rantbow•glancing pinions• Dropped the hues that were so brief; And I cannot love thce, Autumn, That thou bringest me this grief. Vet my spirit is unbroken, Thou su long it wore the chair; Time shall yield the dew of healing Ere another summer reign ; Then, oh ! beautiful October, Thou wilt bring me joy again. g ZCICCiiOIW. Grape Culture at . the West. The grape growers of the Ohio Valley are now in the midst of their harvest, and the vintar , e will be the most productive ever had. The g rapes are remarkably well ri pened, full of juice and saccharine matter. Not more than one-third of the crop bus yet been gathered. The Ohio river is termed the "Rhine of America," and has gained this appellation through the in:Art/Mentality of Mr. Nicholas Longworth, the pioneer in this branCh of horticulture in the United States. He has now 150 acres of vineyard under cultivation, and owns three wine cellars, where wines are stored for fermentation and prepared for market, one of which contains 140,000 bot tles. Mr L. is severity years of age, but is as vigorous, and performs as much labor, as many in the prime of, manhood. Ile has accumulated an immense property, his tax es the last year having amounted to $17,- 000, and which are said to be larger than are assessed upon any other• man in the country, William 13. Astor, and perhaps L I one or two others, excepted. He has long I been a patron of the fine arts, and the par lors of his residence are enriched with rare collections, both from nature and art. - In cluded in the latter, is an exquisite bust, in marble, the first of Powers' productions.— Mr. L. curly discovered the genius of Pow ers, and lent his aid in its development.— Of late years, his attention has been chiefly absorbed by the grape culture. For thirty years he experimented with foreign graves, with a view to their acclimation in the Uni ted States. Six thousand vines of the best Maderia wine grapes, and seven thoUsand from .the mountains of Jura, in France, be sides others from the vicinity of Paris and Bordeaux were procured, but which were all thrown away, after a protracted,trial, inn found inferior to the Catawba, a native of North Carolina. Near 200 varieties of grape have been tested, but the two best are • found to be the Catawba and Herbermond, which makes a Wine similar to the Spanish Manzanilla, and which is to be more exten sively cultivated than heretofore. 11- :3w The vineyards are generally located on the'slopes of the Ohio river; and nine-tenths of them are tilled by German vine-dressers, who have devoted their lives to the 'busi ness.; It bus been customary togive a piece of land, of say fifteen to menty.acres; with ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., OCTOBER 26, 1853. a house on it, to these Germ:m.9,ml the con dition that the tenant :hall pima a certain quantity of grapeseach year, in a proper manner, and pay the proprietor one-half the proceeds of the vineyard. In Ohio, there are about 1500 acres of land exclusively devoted to grape growing, betwoon 300 and 400 of which are near Cincinnati. Within twenty toilets of This city, including a part of Kentucky, on the opposite side of the river, there are 1000 acres, and double the quantity of vines.— More have been planted this year than there were last. In Missouri, near I lent - mom there are 500 acres ; in Indiana 200 or 000; in Illinois about 100, and in Kentucky the same,—making about 2500 acres in all,— It is estimated that Indiana, Ohio and Ken tucky, will this year produce ut least halt million gallons of wine. The yield on some of the vineyards will be equal to 700 or 11;1 gollons,—allowing 2,400 vines to the acre, planted about three feet a hart, iu rt-,ves sel :totted by a distance of three feet, r. Rob ert 13nchanan, who is among the most Si. et. c2ssful cultivators of the view, this year ob tains about ,! , 00 gallons of 1,6110 from etult acre of his nottyurel, which will net 11,11 about $7OO per acre. Some other vitietynr,is well do equally well. Persons, howoe,er, are not ad vise& to embark in grape growing, with the expectation of profit, if it shall be necessary to hire labor. The Gorman vine dressers muster all capable members of their families into the service—the wife often be ing the Most. efficient. In this manner, they realize an adequate income. The fret is purchased from the vineyard men for front $5 to $0 per 100 pounds, (or two bushels,—a bushel yielding from 31 to 4 gallons of wine. It is then mashed by the manufacturers in the city, and pressed.— The juice is then fermented in the cellars. and the' sparlding Catawba is in prime order for market at the end of fifteen or ttvei..y months. Mr. 1.on: - eworth has three hu,:e subterranean vaults, one of which will tern out 50,000 boul..s enery year, and emiab , r 100,000 bottles. A third cellar is cape de of turning out 100,000 bottles yearly, it dry Wine'. Some portion of the cellars is °coo ' pied by imeneose butts, or cylindrical tare:;s, 0111' of which holds 5,000 eallons,nr $5.000 worth of wine, if bottled, The staves are labout three inches in thickness, and the heads curve inward, so as to introduce the arch, to resist the internal pressure. Other objects, quite as noticeable, arc the long rows of black bottles placed in a hori zontal position, and stacked up like cird ! wood in solid piles, as Medi as one's neck. In the cellars of the extensive native wine , establishment of Longworth & Zimmerman, are twenty-four casks holding about 2,5110 gallons each, or 60,000 gallons together.nfthe vintage of 1550, '5l, 52 ; and it is expect. ed to store 25,000 gallons of this year's wine. The American Whin are of two general varieties, the "still" and the "sparkling."— The first is wine that undergoes VIZIOU3 fer mentation, or the process which trausfuttns the sugar of the grape into alcohol. To produce a sparkling wine a second fermen tation is excited, by adding a little "rock" candy, and the alcohol is transformed into carbonic acid gas. Thus, Western wine, aside from being an article of domestic pro duction, and entitled to public'favor on that account, can be relied on as the pure and unadulterated juice of the grape ; and the substitution of it for the drugged liquors of foreign importation is a most important and desirable object to be gained.' Even %vhare the manufacture of pure wines is attraty.tal in the hot countries of Europe, it is neces sary to mix brandies with them to make them keep, which is not dons here, on ac count of our wines possessing inarn body and saccharine matter. Americans arc not yet prepared to properly appreciate the val ue of pure wines, because they so rai...dy find their way across the Atlantic. In the , wine districts of Europe brutal intoxication lis comparatively unknown, or any of the effects resulting from intemperate dritthitm. Mr. Longwell; remarks to us that a drunk en vine-dresser is never seen. The do mend for American wino has, of late years, greatly increased, and now exceeds the means of supply. Titere is at present a market for whies of this description to the value of $1,000,000 annually. • The manner of cultivating the vine in the valley of the Ohio, is a matter—in which many will feel en interest, in nil parts of the country. A hill with a 'southern exposure and "rt dry calcareous soil, with a porous subsoil, is preferred. Wet or spongy lands are avoided. The cuttingS should contain at least four joints, and be taken from tuoil well ripened ; should be set Mit in n slant ing position, with the top eye even with the surface of the around, though covered ., With half an inch of light mould, if the weather is dry. Pruning is done from November to March, and cuttings are preserved in cool cellars until the ground is warm and~dry, Or mellow. The first season's superfluous shoots are pUlled off, leaving but one or two to' grow, and but one eventually. In the spring the vine is cut down 16 a single eye, and one stalk or cane allowed 'to ,grow, tied to a stake,—no suckers being ItlloWed to grow. The 'second IsiSiing• after plahtirig, Put.down to two or three eyes, or joints, and the third year to four or five, pinching. oil 10 , t.t Is and tyilla Up. ' This year, two stalks tr.linvd to the stake, and some grapes wi:l he pr.:duct-1. The vine is now estab lished. 7he fourth your, pruning requires good judgineot. The best shoot of the for mer year is cut (lown to six or Licht joints, and listened to the adjoining stake in a hori zontal position, or b,oit over in the form of a bow, and tied to its own stake. The other stalk is cut down to two or three eyes, to make wood for the next season Mr. Buchatitio favors the bow system. 'Ffie time reconnot nded for dryine. the vines, is when the buds b•o-in to swell and look whito. The cultivfitioo of the Rro.pc , 1)113 been carried to a hilt degree of perfection in the Ohio The Snrcntier o rd,i!rtr,oyue, rie.•• ioly had perting a ',Per tvr:.leo lit the eery Sainaul Cody, of lieu O t sego iii hiss ;,irr,y ihird year, jo which he de:TribiF twiny of the incidents connected with tliesurronder 13iirmyorP, on the ul October, 17 i ;. cl %% hie) he was nn eye witness. wriiiro; is c‘ en snit re, , ular print"—and Ole Imes so com pact that sixty-r.vo arc wrmen Upon a page m common letter paper. Congress had or ihe detieiencies in the Continental reg iments, to be made. up by drafts, "but," says the yeller :WO pit riot .70y I ither sail to would lake the place of one and I s;loz11,1 lake that of another. Tins. was to the silting of 1177 and our term of service Was to expire the 10th of January, 171. We were placed in Captain Keep's Company, Cols Shepherd's am! Gen. Glover's 13reo,de. We imtrehedto Clavareck, on toe I whero wo endu red the greioe . st hoot disease, want of provisions, clothing, &e. We soon learned that Gen. •Il'eslinyler was retreating lwforef the British. We were ordered north waid and pined G r near Sarato ga. The Indians picked rats our sentries at night, and gnat di.e:atisfaction existed until! General liatet , , took command, when new spirits were in , tilled into our !oldiers, our rations became ample and good, with a gill of New-England ruin each man per day.— Gates sates:—'.lly boys, we will no‘v go back and meet them—no more retreating." 'Amen,' said every heart. We recrossed the sprout (stream) and met the British near Stillwater—told them by our fortification they could come no further. Here they were strongly fortified, but must have known they were in a bad situation. I suppose they thought of Bennington. and that the Green lountain boys wouid be ttt their backs.— Soon they chose to rich a battle, and attack ed the rl7ht wing of our army. This was a bloody hall clay until dark at night, and our forces lay en the ground ready for the event of the morning. The British returned to their quarters, rested awhile, and then at tacired us again on the same ;ground. Here, as in the fernier engagement, Arneld had commend of the fighting forces, lie did not lack skill or cou rage in this battle, and 1 would Rive Mc (I—/ his &c.c.' The enemy fell back-and we took some prisoners and several pieces of artillery. IVe lay upon our arms that night, and there so near the British that we could hear the Hessians re lieve their guards. A great noise was kept up in their camp all night, At daylight we marched for their camp, but %vile:, we got where they were, they were not there, ex- Copt WoUnded, sick gad doClor,7 to attend th e m, were. they were go rev.' in la rge tents. We pursued toe main body. ',tossing dead hones, the wracks of wagot,s and wh om titliogs burned on their retreat, and ccioe up with t h,, m r e. t ratoga,' upon a hig :1 hill 11 , 0111 of Saratoga Creek, where they had planted their scullery. l'hey compliinented us with balls and shells for perhaps two lint without Lorefit to themselves or det riment to us, except to one peer fellow, who was killed. IVs were tinnier a steep hill, and I saw the balls and shells pass over as but we lay as easy and quiet as chickea . p, under a hen's wings. We fortili-d a hill on. t h e ei , pos it e of the creek, nearly as high as that °cell pl.-d by the British, and frequent le`'went to drive parties from the creek, where they came for water, us it was scarce ia their camp. As we were about to open our fire, a flag of truce arrived, attended by ti~ix very tall, richly dressed men, with very tall caps, the tops of which were, 1 judged seven feet high. An armistice of three days with a view to a surrender, Was asked.— six of the tallest men in,our army, with the best cloths we could procure, and with caps so high we' had to look twice to see tlwir tops, were selected to facet the flag. Terms of surrender were finally concluded. Our brigade was ordered to mare.h down the hill and parade on the road leading South, with all.the music of the brigade in the center, playing 'Yankee Doodle.' We were but. just Ivaraded when the British General, of ficers and stuff, net close by where I stood in the ranks, and so near that I could hear all that was said. An American officer said :'Gen. Burgoyne—Gen. Gates.' 'Your servant, sir — , Your servant, sir,'—passed 'arOund. Gen. Burgoyne said, !Through the misfortune of war, Gen.tGrOte'e, I am your FOB. FARME prisoirer,' is not though any misconduct of your:, Gcn. Burgoyne,' replied Gates.— Then came the British troops in columns, as richly dressed, clean and sizable men as ev er I saw. I saw net a smile on the face of Americans or British. Next came the Hes- SiODS—and how shall I describe tho most miserable, filthy, ill-looking beings I ever saw in human form ? But the fat s -end was the women. 1 sIIPFYT. Many cf Hirai led horses, upon the beck of which were thrown large oblonq bags sewed up at the ends.— These Laps eams.:ned provi=ions, blankets, clothing utensils, &c.. knd in many ages t‘.-ere the heads of children stielting up above the horses' backs. throegh boles in the bags. iionietimes there %veto smaller children on the ethc.r seie to balance. Our orders were to maint , ..in a respectable silence, Lot: Ihi last was too much ! One ventured l a sup- plaased heHibor . trr,!: the d is- ease is'a violent until a few isio• mews, the American linos were ron vulsed v. ith the most nro.,arions laughter, and all at Me t. , irense ci tlie pear Hessians, Blair women, chihlren and coMpage. "As scam es they had ail passed, we marched smith 0 few miles and halted for the night, but 1w Lunce the next morning, we were on our way to Albany, and marching all thy and night, the next morning found it upon the east of the river opposite Alba ny, where the bare ground was an easy bed ler a short time. The reason of this forced march was that the enemy were ascending this river to join Burgoyne, bet hearing of his defeat, they retin tied to New-York. In a few days, we went down the river sever al miles ill sioops—landed on the west side --crossed the lersey. , —joined Washington in Pennsylvania, (the Britnth being in pos ses,:ion of Philadelphia,) and arrived at 'Val ley Forge in the latter part of December, 1777. Smietitne previously we had lost our tents, cooking utensils, &c., and as we did not draw bread, we kneaded our flour in a knarack, :iept clean for the purpose, and 'naked it hi the fire or in hot embers, if we had any. One of toy mess had a arnall cop per ti.at which I suppose he stoic.— inue.o Liish lints, and Rite: ward those of logs. After sleeping during the night on the ground, 1 Lave awaked in the morning and found myself covered with snow, but I did not suffer much from cold. • "My term of enlistMent spun expired, and I was discharged 300 tnilea from home, without money, as Government had none to pay us. Washington ~ e nt an cfrie.r to draw rations front the country stores cn the route. After a narrow escape tram drowning in cros sing the North River, in twelve days we arrived at our homes in Connecticut:" Story of a New• York liag Picker. The rag-pickers of New York are a queer set of beings. We have gone among them, seen their manner of life, and have heard their stories from their own lips. We shall here give one of these fiairatives told us by an old' man whom we met in the course of cur investigations. His story was not of the most cheering chi:riveter ; still he appeared to be amteneed with his lot, and never railed at that fortune which had pla ced hint at the very lowest poiut in the so• vial scale. We give hit account of himself as he related it to es, in reply to our ingot- In answer to our question as to Ivrien he co:mut:coed picking up rags in the streets. he said : "1 ant not exactly certain, but, as near as I can remember, it is about a year nod a half. 13:..f0r0 that I used to pie* up wood at fires, and at buildings when they would be taking them down. This wood I sold by the basket, but 1 wasn't able to tuako teat.; than sixpence or eightpeuce a day at the roast, whilo there Wero I m l ay days I couldn't cure anything at all at ft.". "I suppose you found rag-picking more profits blo than that ?" "Oh, a great deal, for the sticks were not always to be had. 13? sides, there were a great many others engaged at it who were more active and stronger than tnyLell, and I had very little chance among them. 1 found it very hard to support Myself, and then I had u very. sore foot which I have never been able to get, cured, for I have to walk on it all the time. Ni,, indeed, I ant net able to navel like others, God help ate; but, if I was smarter on my feet I might make more, bat then you see I emit old and feeble, and every day I find harder th get along.'_!.. "When 1 was picking sticks," ho said, after.a brief pubse. "I was not strong en ough to carry away the big timber, and had to-he content with the chips and smaller pieces that would : be left by others. Then, you know, a great deal of the wood I gath ered 1 used to bring home with mu for tiring." "What was the largest amount .yoti could I make at this kind of work ?" We ingiiiied. "Well, that depended upon the weather and other things ; but anyhow, the most I could make wait half a dollar a week, and it was,very seldom 1 got that. still that help ' ed the family along, and it was better than Inothing." , I 'How many persons are there in your family 1" "Well let ' me see," said the old man, counting "There l!i myself end wife, that's NUMBER 4. twp ; and thoro are my three daughters—all ;roan up unman--that makes five, and toy two about nix years old, no that you see there nro seven of us alto!rether to feed, and fiod knows Milt's hard job. Two of my daughters are oilgog.d at some kind of nee dle work, but it pays very ~poorly, and the other is employed at Immo, but she goes out whenever she eau got a day's washing to do. My grandchildren are too young to do any thin(' yei.•' "Your daughters would not be able to support you out of their own earnings," Nte surzp.rsttid. Igo, sir ; they are trying. to get along as Weil as they can, and they have to work hattl to support themselves and the rest' of the family. Anything. that 1 make, though itt ever so little, helps us along." ..1116at du you pay t month for youi nn.J" '•G'ive dollars for two rooms, which we have to pay in advance always, for fear of bring turned cut, for our landlord is very. strict. When there isn't a flush of work for my daughters we find it very hard to raise uncm , h to pay the rent. When we arrived, in 'this comary, about three years ago, one, of my daugluers was engumid as a nurse in a nod got ttv,•lve dollars it month; whilr the other tvent out to service, and earned five or :is dollars a month. We found it easier to manage then, for things was net so dear, and then there wns not so many of us at home to support. Now, they . are all at home, and of course there tire more inot;tl3 to ON hat induced you to take to rag pick ing for a living t" saw Soule women at it, and I thought that they must be making more than if they were picking up sticks. Besidesy;Pheard that it paid better, from ono of the rag pick ers, and I concluded it was better to goat it. The most of what I pick up is paper, but take; all that I can ; ; et, except bones. If I come across o:d iron, ropes, or anything of that sort, I always put it in my bag." "What dine in the morning do you begin your work ?" . generally am awake tiboUt three or four o'clock, but as that is too early to go to work at, I lie awake in bed till five or six, when davlie;ht beeins to break, and then I start.— If I did not lie awake till that time; but fell asleep, I would be afraid, you see, of sleep log ton late, and losing the whole mornirig. ' "lltaides the rags and papers that.l pick up in the streets," he continued, "I get a good deal of paper from among the• sweep ings of stores, which are generally kept for me by the persons who sweep out, and who know me. Sometimes when. I happen to be too late, I don't get the paper. because they can't keep them for the till I come around again, though some of them do.— And they, you see if I was late, I would lose my chance at the pi;drings in the streets be sides, for they are taken up at once by oth er ragpickers. The only streets I travel through is the Bowory and Chathatp, front Herter down to.the Park, where my jour ney ends." "About what 'line do you got through your morniutr's work ?'' "Nin - e or ten o'clock, when I sell all tho p a p ers I have g itherod, and get some break fa t, which is t eeterally a piece of bread and some milk. When I have done that, Igo down to thn docks about IVashington Mar ket. where I pick up rigs and paper anti anything else I may find lying about the streets." "D.) you ever happen to find any Money When you are engaged at this work ?" "Sometimes, b:n it is very, seldom. Now, yesterday I found a three cent piece, and one day I was lucky enough to find two , sixpences. But it is riot often that happens.' Another day I found a lot of knives, wrap= pod up hra paper parcel, which I picked among the sweepings of a store: I knew from the weight that it could not be paper only, and I wits right, for when I opened it I found a lot of knives. I then took them into the store and gave them to the hey him self, and not the owner, because I kneW if I gave thorn to - him that the boy would be, blamed for his carelessness, and I should not like that, as he was always very good to me, and kept the paper for. me when I conidn't get around, and indeed the owner of the store was very good to me himself, and often gave me something tci help the along." "What time do you go home in the even- ing ?•' "•I stop picking up about fenr or five o'clock in the afternoon, and . when I , have sold nil that's in my bag I go . home. Be tween what I pick up in• the morning and in the afternoon I sometimes make three or four shillings a (lay ; but there are some days, you see, when I can't make more than half of that." "[-low do you manage to get along in the winter'." °lndeed, very poorly ; for you see I am' so old, and I can't stand the cold weather so , well as other rag piekers, and then it is so dark early in the morning that I can't see so well ; besides, if I fell upon the ice I might, break some of my limbs '. ;;; "Besides'what, you pickup , in the streets, don't you get something ke to assist you;
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