"They arrest children for throwing snowballs at the street-cars, but--" "But they don't arrest the street-cars for shaking all the pictures in the houses crooked every time they go by.

Nor for the uproar they make.
I wonder what's the cost in nerves for the noise of the city each year.
Yes, we pay the price for living in a 'growing town,' whether we have money to pay or none." "Who is it gets the pay ?" said Bibbs.
"Not I!" she laughed.
"Nobody gets it.

There isn't any pay; there's only money.

And only some of the men down-town get much of that.

That's what my father wants me to get." "Yes," she said, smiling to him, and nodding.