Enterprising children often went into business for themselves. Kids peddled matches, shoelaces, and ribbons from boxes set up on street corners. Young bootblacks, carrying homemade shoeshine kits, waited for customers in railroad stations, parks, and busy intersections.

—Immigrant Kids,
Russell Freedman

Which sentence best paraphrases the passage?

Children found many ways to earn money. They sold items and shined shoes.
Children who were clever were able to sell matches. They also sold shoelaces.
Children either sold items or shined shoes. There were no other jobs for them.
Children shined shoes at busy intersections. They shined them in parks.



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