"Mebby you think I don't know what you're up to! I even can hear the hammering and the voices of the men when the wind is in the south.

I've been wondering how soon you'd need me.

Out with it!" "I want you to get a woman and come over and spend a day with me.
I'll come after you and bring you back.

I want you to go over mother's bedding and have what needs it washed.

All I want you to do is to superintend, and tell me now what I will want from town for your work." "I put away all your mother's bedding that you were not using, clean as a ribbon." "But it has been packed in moth preventives ever since and out only four times a year to air, as you told me.