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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
·
Lucy Larcom
187
Perhaps
I
never
gave
the
wage-earning
element
in
work
its
due
weight.
It
always
seemed
to
me
that
the
Apostle's
idea
about
worldly
possessions
was
the
only
sensible
one,--
"Having
food
and
raiment,
let
us
be
therewith
content."
If
I
could
earn
enough
to
furnish
that,
and
have
time
to
study
besides,--of
course
we
always
gave
away
a
little,
however
little
we
had,--it
seemed
to
me
a
sufficiency.
At
this
time
I
was
receiving
two
dollars
a
week,
besides
my
board.
Those
who
were
earning
much
more,
and
were
carefully
"laying
it
up,"
did
not
appear
to
be
any
happier
than
I
was.
I
never
thought
that
the
possession
of
money
would
make
me
feel
rich:
it
often
does
seem
to
have
an
opposite
effect.
But
then,
I
have
never
had
the
opportunity
of
knowing,
by
experience,
how
it
does
make
one
feel.
It
is
something
to
have
been
spared
the
responsibility
of
taking
charge
of
the
Lord's
silver
and
gold.
Let
us
be
thankful
for
what
we
have
not,
as
well
as
for
what
we
have!
Freedom
to
live
one's
life
truly
is
surely
more
desirable
than
any
earthly
acquisition
or
possession;
and
at
my
new
work
I
had
hours
of
freedom
every
day.
I
never
went
back
again
to
the
bondage
of
machinery
and
a
working-day
thirteen
hours
long.
The
daughter
of
one
of
our
neighbors,
who
also
went
to
the
same
church
with
us,
told
me
of
a
vacant
place
in
the
cloth-room,
where
she
was,
which
I
gladly
secured.
This
was
a
low
brick
building
next
the
counting-room,
and
a
little
apart
from
the
mills,
where
the
cloth
was
folded,
stamped,
and
baled
for
the
market.
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