3/31 She knew them all by name. It gave her the utmost satisfaction to see them rise, one after another, from their straw, and begin eagerly to eat the hay which Albert pitched down to them from the scaffold, while she, standing below upon the barn floor, held the lantern so that he could see. She was always very careful to hold it so that the cows and the oxen could see too. He was a man of large property, and often had money to lend at interest. He had an office, where he used to do his business. |