With these new recruits, Mrs.Sunderland set about getting "things to right." Nancy plodded on, so well pleased with her wages, that she continued to get the work of one day lengthened out into two, and so managed to get a week's job.
For the whole of another precious week we were in confusion.
"How do your new girls get along ?" I asked of my wife, upon whose face I had not seen a smile for ten days.
"Don't name them, Mr.Sunderland! They're not worth the powder it would take to shoot them.

Lazy, ignorant, dirty, good-for-nothing creatures.

I wouldn't give them house-room." "I'm sorry to learn that.

What will you do ?" I said.
"Dear knows! I was so well suited in Ann and Hannah, and, to think that they should have served me so! I wouldn't have believed it of them.

But they are all as destitute of feeling and principle as they can be.