Canada The province of Manitoba, Canada, forbids children under twelve years from trading in the streets at any time; licenses are issued to boys twelve to sixteen years old, who are not allowed to sell after 9 P.
This subcommittee recommended raising the boys' age limit for licenses from fourteen to sixteen years, and was inclined to advise the total prohibition of street trading by girls.
He lifted it and it relapsed into its frame; no one had ever passed thence since Holt used it sixteen years ago.
Illustration: A girl, fifteen or sixteen years of age, seated upon the ground, beside a squaw.
A girl, fifteen or sixteen yearsof age, seated on the ground, beside a squaw.
Some fourteen or sixteen years, even until, though she also brought something with her, they had sinned all away, and parted as poor as howlets.
Pollard acquired a district school education in his native state and at sixteen years of age left the parental roof to start out in life on his own account.
She was born in Nova Scotia and came to the United States at the age of sixteen years, her parents continuing in Nova Scotia, where they passed away.
At the age of sixteen years he started to work for the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, where he learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked until 1892.
Hunt was reared under the parental roof until he reached the age of sixteen years, when he left home and went to Boston, Massachusetts, where for four years he was engaged in railroading.
Father John Forbes, of the White Fathers, after a stay of sixteen years in the mission fields of Africa, is since the year 1900 residing in Quebec, superior of the branch house of the Society of the White Fathers in Canada.
Although a native of Scotland, born in Kintyre, John Keith Macdonald spent almost his entire active life in Montreal, where he arrived when a youth of sixteen years.
Their son Robert Carlyle Jamieson pursued his education in the place of his nativity to the age of sixteen years, when he left home and taught school at Hawkesbury.
At sixteen years of age, it being determined that Charles was to enter into the business of his father, he was placed as an apprentice in the Sawyers' woolen-mills.
He made successive clearings each year, and with vigorous hand put up his log cabin,--though only a boy of sixteen years when he began.
In his devoted flock there was an orphan lad, sixteen years of age, named Leonard Harriman, and from this youthful adventurer the subject of our sketch descended, being of the seventh generation.
It is possible that they do not know that, in not a few cases, boys and girls from eight to sixteen years of age, even while attending school, draw from three to six volumes a week to read, and often come for two volumes a day.
A limit of fourteen or sixteen years is fixed, below which they are not admitted to the library as its patrons.
Schindler was told by some old acquaintances of Beethoven "that on the visit two persons only were deeply impressed upon the lifelong memory of the youth of sixteen years: the Emperor Joseph and Mozart.
We engage a fiacre, drive around the town, whose growth and improvement in the interval ofsixteen years do not fail to strike us.
These were chanted in a high voice, neither fresh nor exact, and did not make on me the impression of sixteen years ago.
I pause to collect the experience of sixteen years, the period intervening between my second visit and the present.
Yet, with the remembrance of sixteen years since, and with present judgment, I am inclined to consider the supremacy of the Miserere a musical superstition.
Not too young to seem a callow youth to the eyes of Shimo's sixteen years; not too old to look on her merely as one of different sex.
With fear and respect: the girl is but of sixteen years, and the white sand has paralysed her thought and utterance.
It is capable of furnishing loanable capital equal to one thousand dollars for every male and female person, of sixteen years of age and upwards, within the Commonwealth; or two thousand five hundred dollars for every male adult.
Here's sixteen years that I have spent my youth in this house, and I have only just found out that you have got a stone there (striking her breast).
At sixteen years of age Brigaut did not yet know how to draw or to model a cornice; he was ignorant of much, but he had earned, by piece-work done in the leisure of his apprenticeship, some four or five francs a day.
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