If he had been kind to me, I would have done anything for him.
I loved to wait on Miss Laura and Mrs.Morris, and they taught both Billy and me to make ourselves useful about the house.

Mrs.Morris didn't like going up and down the three long staircases, and sometimes we just raced up and down, waiting on her.
How often I have heard her go into the hall and say, "Please send me down a clean duster, Laura.

Joe, you get it." I would run gayly up the steps, and then would come Billy's turn.

"Billy, I have forgotten my keys.

Go get them." After a time we began to know the names of different articles, and where they were kept, and could get them ourselves.