I'll 'tend to the food." "Well, all right, Mancy; I wish you would.

And, now, just help me with this list.

I'll read it to you, and see if you think of anything that I've forgotten." "Yas'm," said Mancy, who was most anxious to help, but who had already learned that Patty was a little inclined to resent unasked advice.
They were deep in the fascinating bewilderments of grocers' and greengrocers' wares, when Pansy Potts appeared in the doorway.
"Miss Patty," she said, "I've done all the things you told me to do; and I watered the palms, and I've poked around that bunchy rosebush, but I'm 'most sure it's going to die; and now, if you please, when can I be let to fix up my own room ?" "Sure enough, Pansy," said Patty; "we must get at that room of yours, and we'll fix it up as pretty as we can." "Mine, too," said Mancy; "I wants my room fixed up nice.

I fetched a lot of pictures to liven it up some, but I reckon I ain't got no time to put 'em up to-day." "Oh, yes, you have, Mancy," said Patty, rising; "and, anyway, we'll go right up and look at those rooms; then I can tell what we need to get for them." "Mine won't need anything," said Pansy, "except what's in it already, and what I've got to put in it myself.

I brought my decorations over this morning." "Oh, you did ?" said Patty.