thing to do, either husbands to get off to work or labours of their own to perform.
A little woman with a weak voice finally changed the current of talk by saying, "Well, I guess I kin stay there's some cold things at home that my man kin git, an' the childern 'll git off to school by themselves. They'll all understand."
"That's right, Melissy Davis," said a hard-faced woman who had gone on about some work she was doing, without taking any notice of the clamorous deserters, "an' I'll stay with you. I guess I've got about as much work to do as any of you," she added, casting a cold glance at the women who were now wrapped up and ready to depart, "an' I was n't so much of a friend of Margar't's as some of you, neither, but on an occasion like this I know what dooty is." And Miss Hester Prime closed her lips in a very decided fashion.
"Oh, well, some folks is so well off in money an' time that they kin afford to be liberal with a pore creature like Margar't, even ef they did n't have nothin' to do with her before she died."
Miss Prime's face grew sterner as she replied, "Margar't Brent wasn't my kind
