"My pile has reached five thousand dollars." "And how long have you been at work ?" "A year.

I was a bookkeeper in New York on a salary of fifteen hundred dollars a year.

I used to spend all my income--the more fool I--till the last six months, when I laid by enough to bring me out here." "Then you have really bettered yourself ?" "I should say so.

I could only save up five hundred dollars a year at the best in New York.

Here I have crowded ten years into one." "In spite of your large outlay for clothes ?" "I see you will have your joke.