[originaltext] Billy is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a p

Billy is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a part-time job which gets him up every morning at five o’clock. He is a newspaper boy. Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5:15 to go to the corner where the newspapers are. The newspapers were delivered to the corner by the truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to carry them. In the winter, it is still dark when he gets up, but during the rest of the year it is light. Billy must deliver the newspapers to the houses of people on his route in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch where it will be protected from wind and rain or snow. His customers think he does a good job. Sometimes they give him extra money. Billy earns about $ 70 per month, and he is saving some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest on records and clothes. Sometimes, when Billy is sick, his elder brother has to deliver the newspapers. Once Billy’s father had to help. Bill has seventy customers now, but he hopes to get more soon. If he gets more customers, Billy might win a prize for being an outstanding newspaper boy. He wants to win the trip to Europe, but he will be happy if he wins a new bicycle.