Some one must make them, and it is the end we have in view, it seems to me, that determines the character of an action.

If I, for the sake of procuring an honest living for my mother, my little brothers, and myself, am willing to devote my time to dress-making, instead of sitting in idleness, and suffering James and Willie to be put out among strangers, then the calling is to me honorable.

My aim is honorable, and the means are honest.

Is it not so, mother ?" "Yes, I suppose it is so.

But then there was always something so degrading to me in the idea of being nothing but a dress-maker!" Just at that moment a young man, named Martin, who had lived with them during the last year of their experiment in keeping boarders, called in to see them.