Ralph Hoskin was very poor: his pathetic pictures did not find many purchasers, and he lived principally by teaching.
The very best qualities of goods take on the highest prices when there is a small, but very wealthy, class of purchasers.
Nora was to have charge of this table, and she expected to have a great deal of fun out of the misfits between the purchasers and the parcels.
They were heaped on a large table, and purchasers were permitted to buy each little package at their own price, provided at least, according to a sign placed above the table, that no bid should be for less than fifteen cents.
By ten o'clock, when the crowds have dispersed and the purchasers have all gone home and gone to bed, the busy booth-keepers take down their stalls, pack up their wares, and disappear, leaving no trace of the night's gayeties to greet the morning sun.
He also expects that, when he carries his goods to market, and offers them at a reasonable price, he shall find purchasers, and shall be able, by the money he acquires, to engage others to supply him with those commodities which are requisite for his subsistence.