Perhaps, she reasoned, it was quite as well that Mrs.Colvin had gone, for if she could pull the candy herself, it would save from two to three dollars a week.
Katy would not consent that she should do it alone, but agreed to divide the labor between them.

The quantity manufactured every day was so great that the toil of making it fell heavily upon them; but as Mrs.
Redburn did not complain, Katy was too proud to do so though her wrists and shoulders pained her severely every night after the work was done.
This toil weighed heavily on Katy's rather feeble constitution; but all her mother could say would not induce her to abandon the work.

For a month they got along tolerably well, and, perhaps, no evil consequences would have followed this hard labor, if everything else had gone well with Katy.

The girls who sold the candy had for some time caused her considerable trouble and anxiety.

Very often they lost their money, or pretended to do so, and three or four of them had resorted to Ann Grippen's plan of playing "trick upon travelers." She had to discharge a great many, and to accept the services of those whom she did not know, and who, by various means, contrived to cheat her out of the money received from the sales of the candy.