I wonder that you knew that I even had a fowl; much more how much they had eaten!" "I really do try to do all I can, and that is a proof of it," I said.
"I am not quite so listless as you think.

But those things do seem so little to me." "My dear, if you were happy, they would seem quite large, as, after all the anxieties of my life, I am able now to think them.

It is a power to be thankful for, or, at least, I often think so.

Look at my husband! He has outlived and outlasted more trouble than any one but myself could reckon up to him; and yet he is as brisk, as full of life, as ready to begin a new thing to-morrow--when, at our age, there may be no to-morrow, except in that better world, my dear, of which it is high time for him and me to think, as I truly hope we may spare the time to do." "Oh, don't talk like that," I cried.

"Please, Mrs.Hockin, to talk of your hens and chicks--at least there will be chicks by-and-by.