"As you are all in so much confusion, and you have to do the cooking, I prefer getting something to eat down town." "Very well," said Mrs.Sunderland--"so much the better." I left the house a few minutes afterwards, glad to get away.

Every thing was confusion, and every face under a cloud.
"How are you getting along ?" I asked, on coming home at night.
"Humph! Not getting along at all!" replied Mrs.Sunderland, in a fretful tone.

"In two days, the girls might have thoroughly cleaned the house from top to bottom, and what do you think they have done?
Nothing at all!" "Nothing at all! They must have done something." "Well, next to nothing, then.

They havn't finished the front and back chambers.

And what is worse, Ann has gone away sick, and Hannah is in bed with a real or pretended sick-headache." "Oh, dear!" I ejaculated, involuntarily.
"Now, a'nt things in a pretty way ?" "I think they are," I replied, and then asked, "what are you going to do ?" "I have sent John for old Jane, who helped us to clean house last spring.