The owner, Martha Farnham, proved herself a friend indeed to the poor harassed soul.

Now she kept the wolf from the door by going out as a monthly nurse--"Aunt Farnham" looking after the little ones in her absence.

She was put to all her possibles during those anxious years of struggle and want.

Even Lloyd, wee bit of a boy, was pressed into the service.

She would make molasses candies and send him upon the streets to sell them.