All over the hills men and women were turning their efforts and strength into these slender streams of money forever flowing toward the mortgagee.
Mr.Dunkelberg had seen Benjamin Grimshaw and got him to give us a brief extension.

They had let me stay out of school to work.

I was nearly thirteen years old and rather strong and capable.

I think that I got along in my books about as well as I could have done in our little school.
One day in December of that year, I had my first trial in the full responsibility of man's work.

I was allowed to load and harness and hitch up and go to mill without assistance.