Often and often they've gone for days with nothing but a dry loaf, and the father spending all he got at the public." "Was it a large family ?" Hilliard inquired.
"Well, let me see; at that time there was Eve's two sisters and her brother.

Two other children had died, and the mother was dead, too.

I don't know much about _her_, but they say she was a very good sort of woman, and it's likely the eldest girl took after her.

A quieter and modester girl than Eve there never was.

Our Martha lived with her aunt at Walsall--that's my only sister, and she was bed-rid, poor thing, and had Martha to look after her.