Your grandfather helped one of the young men to come to America, and I remember his mother getting into a passion about it.

She was a fat woman in a Paisley shawl and a love-bird on her bonnet.

I saw his sister often.

She weighed about twelve stone, and had red hair and red cheeks and bare red elbows.

She was called a 'strapping lass.' That is quite a complimentary term in the West Riding." "Please, grandmother, I don't want to hear any more.