When Miss Mathilda early in the fall came to her house again old Katy
was not there.

"I never thought old Katy would act so Miss Mathilda," Anna said,
"when she was so sorry when you went away, and I gave her full wages
all the summer, but they are all alike Miss Mathilda, there isn't one
of them that's fit to trust. You know how Katy said she liked you,
Miss Mathilda, and went on about it when you went away and then she
was so good and worked all right until the middle of the summer, when
I got sick, and then she went away and left me all alone and took a
place out in the country, where they gave her some more money. She
didn't say a word, Miss Mathilda, she just went off and left me there
alone when I was sick after that awful hot summer that we had, and
after all we done for her when she had no place to go, and all summer
I gave her better things to eat than I had for myself. Miss Mathilda,
there isn't one of them has any sense of what's the right way for a
girl to do, not one of them."

Old Katy was never heard from any more.

No under servant was decided upon now for several months. Many came
and many went, and none of them would do. At last Anna heard of
Sallie.

Sallie was the oldest girl in a family of eleven and Sallie was just
sixteen years old. From Sallie down they came always littler and
littler in her family, and all of them were always out at work
excepting only the few littlest of them all.

Sallie was a pretty blonde and smiling german girl, and stupid and a