That meant he'd spent what he had in the bank on Sally's wedding, and all that was in the Underground Station, or maybe the Station money wasn't his.
Just when he was awfully bothered, mother said to never mind, she believed she could fix it.

She sent all of us into the orchard to pick the fine apples that didn't keep well, and father made three trips to town to sell them.

She had big jars of lard she wouldn't need before butchering time came again, and she sold dried apples, peaches, and raspberries from last year.

She got lots of money for barrels of feathers she'd saved to improve her feather beds and pillows; she said she would see to that later.

Father was so tickled to get the money to help him out that he said he'd get her a pair of those wonderful new blue geese like Pryors had, that every one stopped to look at.