Any place where they could get something to eat and drink would be better than this.
Mr.and Mrs.Brier had some pretty hard struggles to get along, and everyone of this party has ever been loud in praise of the energy and determination of the brave little woman of the Brier mess.

All agreed that she was by far the best man of the party.

She was the one who put the packs on the oxen in the morning.

She it was who took them off at night, built the fires, cooked the food, helped the children, and did all sorts of work when the father of the family was too tired, which was almost all of the time.

They all said that he, like other ministers, had fallen out with any work but that of the tongue, and seemed perfectly willing for some one else to do the work.