Brenda, Her School and Her Club

e weather, sometimes it was another engagement, more often they could not go because they had no one to accompany them. For it was evident that two young girls could not go alone to the North End

could go as well as not by ourselves, and why we should have t

Street this very day. If you get Mrs. Barlow's permission I shall be happy to have you go with me." So it happened that one warm, sunny day in early November, the girls and Miss South exchanged their Back Bay car at Scollay Square for a Hanover Street electric car. It w

hopping street of the North End, and on Saturday nights the poor people do most of

few minutes when Miss South gav

see this quaint old street. It has a

m looked old. Shops occupied the lower part of most of these houses, and many of them were pawn-shops. As they entered the street it seemed as if they could hardly pass through. Hooks and poles laden with old clothes p

want to eat it,

h with a smile. "Only it does not look quite as inviting as

le dreadfully p

he men here make a pretty good living. They are peddlers, and go out

children lo

ian and Polish Jews when they first come to Boston have very little money, and are supported by their friends. But they soon find a chance to earn their living, and a man

f surprise as they looked down some of t

Nora; "and then these people-and the queer signs-Oh

ich Nora spoke certa

er of a tiny shop with one little window described himself as a "Wholesale and retail dealer in dry goods," a corner groceryma

floor. Most of the little children had gone home for the day, and only a few remained whose mothers were out working and had no one with whom to leave the children. Nora and Brenda exclaimed with delight at sight of five or six little boys and girls seated in small chairs around a low table. Nearly all had dark hair and eyes, although there was one little blonde g

we go there let us look at Christ Church. Do you realize that you are

irly jumped

ere, but I hadn't an idea it was so near,

hildren, and

ght ride of

uth, had crossed the street. There before them loomed the gray front of t

ple of this church April 18, 1775, warned the country of

e Sunday you would find it worth while to come down here to a service, for

t!" exclaimed Nora. "You know

ying Ground, up this street. We haven't time to go to-day, but if you do not

enda. "I don't care so much for old things

or instance. Well, you shall see him in less

t old houses. One wooden house which looked as if it might fall down at any minute bore a placa

ink of it!" exclaimed Brenda, who w

he second house, stood Manuel himself. He looked at them at first without recognizing them, but when Nora called his name, he took hi

ead. Nora and Brenda now found that they had lost their tongues. They really did not know what to say, and they were very glad that Miss South had come with them.

d that she had been ill for two or three weeks. She had not been able to go to her frui

nuel at school?"

miled Mrs. Rosa, showing

d. "He ought to go every

red toe peeping out from one shoe. Nora nudged Brenda-Brenda smiled assent. The nudge and the

ece of furniture was the large cook-stove. On the mantelpiece were various dishes, several of which were broken, and there were the remains of a meal on the table. Al

mlessly to Mrs. Rosa's. They managed to ask her if Manuel had run away again, an

l not to run under the h

in Brenda, while Manuel and his mother both smiled, though I am

're awful bad. I whip Manuel all the time s

stand the meaning of this question, and after a few more inquiries about the other children who were still in school, Miss South sai

shawl at them, and "Come again" shouted Manuel as the

dful," exclaimed Nora, "

she would tell you that she is better off than when she lived in the Azores," and then, as she saw that the girls were interested, Miss South continued, "in Boston she can send her children to good schools, knowing t

hen properly warmed is not so uncomfortable as it looks. The worst thing about Mrs. Rosa's way of living is the fact that she and her children are crowded into two small rooms.

who, as a doctor's daughter, had pretty definite

way to help Mrs. Rosa would be to persuade her to take her family t