But she does not know how to use them any more than a baby." "Possibly, nobody ever taught her." "Yes; she went for a year to the National School, she says, and learned both marking and sewing." "Perhaps she has never practiced them since.

She could hardly have had time, with all the little Hands to look after, as her mother says she did.

All the better for us.

It makes her wonderfully patient with our troublesome brats.

It was only to day, when that horrid little Jacky Smith hurt himself so, that I saw Elizabeth take him into the kitchen, wash his face and hands, and cuddle him up and comfort him, quite motherly.