community in the year of grace nineteen and some odd!

“Do you mean to say that Cissy is all alone there now, with nobody to do anything for her — nobody?”

“Oh, she can move about a bit and get a bite and sup when she wants it. But she can’t work. It’s d — — d hard for a man to work hard all day and go home at night tired and hungry and cook his own meals. Sometimes I’m sorry I kicked old Rachel Edwards out.” Abel described Rachel picturesquely.

“Her face looked as if it had wore out a hundred bodies. And she moped. Talk about temper! Temper’s nothing to moping. She was too slow to catch worms, and dirty — d — mdash;d dirty. I ain’t unreasonable — I know a man has to eat his peck before he dies —