A Girl of the People

within its precincts-also the very good and the very bad. Its slums are black and awful; but it also contains some of the finest public buildings, some

Irishmen, Scotchmen, dwellers in Africa; in fact, people from all parts of the civilized world find their way to Liverpool, to return from thence by way of the sea to their native lands. On certain days in the week the

at his native town from a very different point of view. He is part and parcel of the place, and he loves it for its size and ugliness, its great commerce, its thriving active business life. Liverpool to its citizens means home; they are proud of their laws and their customs; they like to dispense charity in their own way; they like to support and help their own poor; they have, to an extent absolutely unknown in London, the true spirit of neighborliness. This spirit

ork at the docks, or take to a sea-faring life. Thus sailors are coming and going, and there is scarcely a family belonging either to high or low who has not a son, a brother, or a father on the sea. Perhaps this is one of the facts which binds the people to o

ither earn what they can at the docks or go to sea. They need never debate as to their profession or their calling i

d for her; she is not like the Manchester girl, who is as certain to go into the factory as she is to eat a

stipulation that she should at least sleep at home-that her evenings from seven o'clock out should be her own. Now that this rule is no long

ulty. Some hawk fruit and vegetables, doing a fairly brisk trade on Saturdays, and even on Sunday mornings; but the most favored Liverpool girls earn their daily bread by selling newspapers night after night in the streets. A good-looking girl will secure her regular customers, have her own regular a

ly and pleasant-looking, and her papers so clean and crisp and neatly cut, that she did a fair trade, and largely helped to support her mother and little brothers. Her trade occupied her for a couple

e, with the far-away world-they give her a pleasing and ever-recurring sense of excitement and exhilaration; but,

ten quite close to the edge of the quays, speaking very few words, and making scarcely an

he drank away his earnings, and gave no thought whatever to the comfort of his wife and children, he was sober and steady by day. He

soon to be abundantly visited on him. Mrs. Granger meant well, but her religion was not of an inspiriting kind. Whenever she saw her husband the worse for drink she reproached him, and spoke to him about hell-fire. He soon

nobility about her. For instance, no one had ever heard Elizabeth Granger tell a lie. She was proud of her truthfulness, which was simply the result of courage. She was afraid of no one, and no circumstance had ever caused her cheek to blanch with fear. She quickly acquired a name for truth and honesty of purpose, and then pride helped her to live

feeble an appearance that the neighbors thought the miserable thing called life could not exist in their tiny persons more than a day or two. They were twins, and Mrs. Gran

the world," they said; "it would be

urned the offending but well-disposed neighbors out of the room; she locked the doo

bed. "I want 'em-I'm allays a-wanting som

the babies' devoted nurse; and so, afte

spirit from utterly fainting; but they did nothing to illumine or render happy the lives of those about her. She believed intensely in a God who punished. He saved-she knew He saved-but only through

he Bible was read aloud; she made one or two friends for herself, and these friends were certainly not of her mother's choosing. She could read, and she loved novels-indeed, s

own some day; and the girl also cared for the mother, respecting her stern sense of duty, admiring the length of her prayers,

for the presence of the boys she might have

ortest of illnesses-too short to alarm anyone, too short for even the word danger to be whi

est doubt in her orphaned hea