The ,000 Bequest, Chapter I

0:00 She instituted a vegetable garden there, got it farmed on shares by the nearest neighbor,

0:05 and made it pay her a hundred percent a year. Out of Saladin's first year's wage she put thirty

0:13 dollars in the savings bank, sixty out of his second, a hundred out of his third, a hundred and fifty

0:20 out of his fourth. His wage went to eight hundred a year then, and meantime two children had

0:26 arrived and increased the expenses, but she banked two hundred a year from the salary nevertheless,

0:32 thenceforth. When she had been married seven years she built and furnished a pretty and comfortable

0:38 two-thousand-dollar house in the midst of her garden acre, paid half of the money down,

0:44 and moved her family in. Seven years later she was out of debt and had several hundred dollars out

0:51 earning its living. Earning it by the rise in landed estate, for she had long ago bought another acre or

0:58 two and sold the most of it at a profit to pleasant people who were willing to build, and would be

1:04 good neighbors and furnish a general comradeship for herself and her growing family. She had an

1:11 independent income, from safe investments, of about a hundred dollars a year. Her children were growing

1:17 in years and grace, and she was a pleased and happy woman.