She had not cared to eat, and now it occurred to her that food had not passed her lips that day.

With strong self-control she forced herself to eat a few of the dry pieces of corn bread, and to drink some cold coffee that stood in the little coffee-pot.

This she did while she worked, wasting not one minute.
There were some old flour-sacks in the house.

She put the eatables into two of them, with the pan of beans on the top, adding a tin cup, and tied them securely together.

Then she went into her little shed room, and put on the few extra garments in her wardrobe.