Who should have it, if not she ?" "The children, I suppose," said her mother.
"The children!" exclaimed Mary Bell.

"Hoh! They are not half big enough.

They are only two babies; a great baby and a little one." Mrs.Bell did not answer this, nor did she seem to take much notice of it, but took up her knitting again, and went on musing as before.

Mary Bell did not understand very well about the will.

The case was this: The law, in the state where Mary Erskine lived, provided that when a man died, as Albert had done, leaving a wife and children, and a farm, and also stock, and furniture, and other such movable property, if he made no will, the wife was to have a part of the property, and the rest must be saved for the children, in order to be delivered to them, when they should grow up, and be ready to receive it and use it.