The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 11 Page 8

“I’m willin’, more’n willin’, when only I can get to help Cass some. Hoyle, he’s a heap o’ help, with me not able to do a lick. He can milk nigh as well as she can, an’ tote in water, an’ feed the chick’ns an’ th’ pig, an’ rid’n’ to mill fer meal — yas, he’s a heap o’ help. Cass, she got to get on with th’ weavin’. We promised bed kivers an’ such fer Miss Mayhew. She sells ‘em fer ladies ‘at comes to the hotel in summah. We nevah would have a cent o’ money in hand these days ‘thout that, only what chick’ns ‘nd aigs she can raise fer the hotel, too. Hit’s only in summah. I don’t rightly see how we can spare Hoyle.”

“Where’s Miss