Auntie used to say that mamma hunted dust with a magnifying glass.

She didn't, though; she only liked to be neat.

I guess dust doesn't worry men so much as it does women." "Why ?" "Oh, 'cause there's so much of it here; don't you think so?
I'll help you clean up by and by, if you want to." "YOU will ?" "Yes, sir.

I used to dust sometimes when mamma was out sewing.

And once I swept, but I did it so hard that auntie wouldn't let me any more.