Show A step to fortune about forty years ago a poor wo nun living in philadelphia managed to eke out a miserable existence by selling molasses candya one day her candy wa scorched and she was in despair the loss was in a trade where profits weye counted by pennies sho was quick wilted and ready expedients sho cracked somo walnuts mixed alie kernels in the candy and wrote a placard A new nul candy a cent a cake the children dropped in on their way to school the candy was liked and they came back for more alio next day the fame of tho cheap confection spread from school to school the maker shrewdly confined her jefto nicking chati sho took a larger shop in the alley in a year or two she moved again this limo into ona of the principal streets itow her walnut candy is sold over country sonio years ago ablio sold out lier bu retired with a handsome fortune now sho liven in a stately standing in a grove of walnut trees tho woodwork is all af walnut carved panels benting walnut dougha ue corato the dining room and on her carriage instead of a coat af arms is a bunch of walnuts just bursting irom alio husk |