human
You will find it easier if you will let me bear a little of the weight to-night, said he, gravely,
gpt
He _is_ my brother and out of work,
human
Can't he get work?
gpt
He says he can't.
human
What can he do?
gpt
He writes well, and he had a clerkship, but Mart was--unsteady, and he lost it. Then he got a place in the freight-yards, but there was a strike, and he went out. They wouldn't take him back then because he was so foolish in his talk; and they can't take him now, for hundreds of better men, steadier men, old employees, have been laid off. Ever since the World's Fair business has been falling away.
human
And you have had not only that house and your mother to care for, but an able-bodied brother?