"It feels something like old times," he said.

He had been knocking about a good while, picking up odd jobs and not half working, but he took heart now, quit drinking and went to work in good earnest, and was soon making ten dollars a week, every cent of which he brought home.

He now gets sixteen dollars.

We haven't made a back step since.

But it wouldn't have been any use trying if we'd stayed in Briar street.