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Excerpt from The Sign of Freedom
I stood up as straight as I could. My mother had always told me to do that when people older than I was came into the room. Moreover, I sensed that I would somehow be helping Mr. G. If I made a good impression on the stranger. Mr. G. Looked anxious, just as he did when a customer came into his little store downstairs. Mr. G. Had been kind to us. He took all the mo lasses candy that my mother made and that I had not been able to sell on the street corners, and got rid of it over the counter of his store. Of course he drove a close bargain. He had to, for he had six children, two of them about my age, and the store was not any too prosperous. But it saved loss for us, and many a time the little that we got from him helped us over a bad bit, when the cupboard was empty or when there was no coal for the stove, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
