THE LANDLADY From sunrise to sunset the day was long enough for many things besides school, which occupied five hours.

There was time for me to try to earn my living; or at least the rent of our tenement.

Rent was a standing trouble.

We were always behind, and the landlady was very angry; so I was particularly ambitious to earn the rent.

I had had one or two poems published since the celebrated eulogy of George Washington, but nobody had paid for my poems--yet.