to-day. Will you get it?"

"No, mother; I will not get the hen for the cook; the cook will
probably get the hen for me."

"She doesn't know the right one."

"But neither do I."

"I want the blue dorking."

"I have a bad eye for color; I might catch something gray."

"I want the dorking; she's stopped laying."

"Is that your motive for taking her life? It would be a terrible
principle to apply indiscriminately!"

"The cook wants to know how she is to get the vegetables out of the
holes in the garden to-day--under all this ice."

"How would she get the vegetables out of the garden under all this
ice if there were no one on the place but herself? I warrant you
she'd have every variety."

"It's a pity we are not able to hire a man. If we could hire a man
to help her, I wouldn't ask you. It's hard on the cook, to make her
suffer for our poverty."

"A little suffering in that way will do her a world of good," said