Your pa has need enough for his money, and this is some I've earned along, knitting, and selling butter.

At first I thought I would get a new chamber carpet, but the old one answers my turn very well, so take it and buy Rose every thing she wants." And all this time the thankless girl up stairs was fretting and muttering about her grandmother's _stinginess_, in not having a better carpet "than the old faded thing which looked as if manufactured before the flood!".