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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Isn't that pretty far for a small girl to carry such a heavy load?" "Oh, she doesn't mind it. All the errand-girls are tickled to death to get the job. The grocers pay them ten per cent. commission on all they buy." It lacked but a few minutes of twelve when the child returned, panting under her burden. "How much did you clear to-day?" somebody asked.
In the meantime his sisters have been living with some middle-class family, starting as errand-girls, being afterwards promoted to the important position of 'kindermeid' or children's maid, though all the time sleeping out, which means that before and after having toiled a whole day for strangers, they do part of the housework for their mothers at home.
"That, miss? That's Mr. John, Madam's husband that's dead a good many years now. But I remember him well." "Could I look at it? He is so much like my father." She walked rapidly over the ancient rug, unheeding its beauties, while the wondering butler followed a trifle anxiously. This was unprecedented. Mrs. Sands's errand-girls usually knew their place.
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