I replied,'One dollar and twenty-five cents,' and I knew the work well worth it.

'I can get it done for one dollar,' she replied, 'and I am not willing to give any more.' What could I do?
I was out of work, my health was poor, and my children clutching at my heart strings for bread; and so I took it at her price.

It was very unprofitable, but it was better than nothing." "Why that is very strange.

I know she pays her dressmaker handsomely." "That is because her dressmaker is in a situation to dictate her own terms; but while she would pay her a large sum for dressmaking, she would screw and pinch a five-cent piece from one who hadn't power to resist her demands.

I have seen people save twenty-five or fifty cents in dealing with poor people, who would squander ten times as much on some luxury of the table or wardrobe.