"Quad's odds"; . lock in the morning;never goes out evenings; does not know a young man in1 >etroit, and shed be willing to work for low wages for theBake of getting a good home. She is told to drop her bundle, lay off her things and ir ito work, and a groat burden rolls off my mind as I con- 173 174 SARAH AND HANNAH. gratulate myself that the prize-medal girl has arrived atlast. Shes all right up to about seven in the evening,when she is suddenly missed, and returns about ten oclockto say that she just dropped out to get a next day she begins to scatter the tea-spoons in
"Quad's odds"; . lock in the morning;never goes out evenings; does not know a young man in1 >etroit, and shed be willing to work for low wages for theBake of getting a good home. She is told to drop her bundle, lay off her things and ir ito work, and a groat burden rolls off my mind as I con- 173 174 SARAH AND HANNAH. gratulate myself that the prize-medal girl has arrived atlast. Shes all right up to about seven in the evening,when she is suddenly missed, and returns about ten oclockto say that she just dropped out to get a next day she begins to scatter the tea-spoons in theback-yard, stops her ironing to read a dime novel, and atsupper-time wants to know if I cant send the children offto live with their grandfather, get a cook stove with silver-plated knobs and have an addition built to the evening a big red-headed butcher walks in, crosseshis legs over the kitchen table, and proceeds to court doesnt last but a day or two longer, and then wesecure Girl Wanted! This one is right from New Hampshire, and doesnt knowa soul in Michigan, and yet she hasnt finished the dinnerdishes before a cross-eyed young man rings the bell andsays hed like to see Hannah for a moment. After seeinghim, Hannah concludes not to stay, as we are so far from STILL WANTING. 175 St. Johns church, and as we dont appear to he religiouspeople. The next one especially recommends herself as beingjust like their own mother to the children, and isnt inthe house half a day before she draws Small Pica over herknee and gives him a regular old Canadian waltz. The next one has five recommendations as a neat andtidy girl, and yet it isnt three days before she bakes theshoe brush with the beef, washes her hands in a souptureen, or drops hairpins into the pudding. I growl about these things after a while, but I am metwith the statement that they had worked five years forGovernor this, or Lord that, and that in all that time noone had so much as looked cro
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