I must do something to work off my superfluous health, and strength, and muscle.

Look at that arm, will you ?' and she threw out her bare arm, which for whiteness and roundness and symmetry of proportion, might have been coveted by the most fashionable lady in the land.

'Go back to your rocking-chair and rest your dear, old lame foot on your softest cushion, and see how soon I will have everything done.

It is just seven now, and by ten we shall be all slicked up, as Ann Eliza Peterkin says.' It was of no use to try to resist Jerrie.

She would have her own way; and so Mrs.Crawford, after skimming her milk and attending to the cream, went to her rocking-chair and her cushion, and sat there quietly, while Jerrie in the woodshed pounded and rubbed, and boiled and rinsed, and wrung and starched and blued, and hung upon the line article after article, until there remained only a few towels and aprons and stockings and socks, and a pair of colored overalls which Harold had worn at his work.