I don't have to.

I didn't come here to work.

They tried it once." Here pushing her tangled hair back from her brow, she pointed to a long scar, saying, "Do you see that ?" Mary nodded, and Sal continued: "When I first came here, the overseer was a bad man, not at all like Mr.Parker.One day he told me to wash the dinner dishes, and to use more than a pint of water, too, so I gathered them up and threw them into the well; but this method of washing did not suit the overseer's ideas of housekeeping, so he took a raw hide, and said he would either 'break my will,' or 'break my neck,' and because he could not break my will, and dared not break my neck, he contented himself with breaking my head.

Every blow that he struck me was like melted lead poured into my brains, which puffed out like sausages, and have never recovered their wonted dimensions.

The town took the matter up, but I don't remember much about it, for I went to sleep again, and when I woke the overseer was gone, and Mr.Parker was here in his place.