When she looked into the drawer there were only sixty cents in money.

Of course, he had some personal property, but it was not immediately available like money, but through the help of kind friends she was enabled to give him a respectable funeral.

Like many other women in her condition of life, she had been brought up in entire ignorance of managing any other business, than that which belonged to her household.

For years she had been shielded in the warm clasp of loving arms, but now she had to bare her breast to the storm and be father and mother both to her little ones.

My father as you know died in debt, and he was hardly in his grave when his creditors were upon her track.