Aunt Chloe can soon teach the girls how to manage it; Uncle Joe, too; he has had no regular work assigned him yet, and the four can certainly do all without anything more than a little oversight from you; yes, without even that." "What a capital planner you are, papa," she said brightly; "I never thought of getting a machine or setting Uncle Joe to running it; but I am sure it's just the thing to do.

Mammy can cut and the girls baste, and among them the machine can easily be kept going from morning to night.
I'll make out my orders and send for the things at once." "That is right, daughter; it pleases me well to note how you put in practice the lesson of promptness I have always tried to teach you.

I will help you in making your estimate of quantities needed, prices to be paid, etc., and I think we can accomplish the whole before dinner.

Come to the library and let us to work." "You dear, kind father, always trying to help me and smooth the least roughness out of my path, and make life as enjoyable to me as possible," she said, laying her hand on his arm and looking up into his face with eyes beaming with filial love, as they rose and stood together for a moment.
"A good daughter deserves a good father," he answered, smoothing with soft caressing motion the shining hair.

"But have you the necessary data for our estimates ?" "The number to be clothed, papa?
I know how many house-servants, how many babies and older children at the quarter, but not the number of field hands." "That will be easily ascertained.