shakin' up, that's what I'll do. I get all out of patience with
that man's ugliness."

"An' she'll do just what she says," said the skeleton to Toby,
with an admiring shake of the head. "That woman hain't afraid of
anybody, an' I wouldn't be a bit surprised if she did give Job a
pretty rough time."

Toby thought, as he looked at her, that she was large enough to
give 'most anyone a pretty rough time, but he did not venture to
say so. While he was looking first at her, and then at her very
thin husband, the skeleton told his wife the little that he had
learned regarding the boy's history; and when he had concluded she
waddled away toward her tent.

"Great woman that," said the skeleton, as he saw her disappear
within the tent.

"Yes," said Toby, "she's the greatest I ever saw."

"I mean that she's got a great head. Now you'll see about how much
she cares for what Job says."

"If I was as big as her," said Toby, with just a shade of envy in
his voice, "I wouldn't be afraid of anybody."

"It hain't so much the size," said the skeleton, sagely -- "it
hain't so much the size, my boy; for I can scare that woman almost
to death when I feel like it."