"Now don't you care, Miss Hallie.

He wan' no 'count for plowin' no how." "Oh, it isn't that, Uncle Billy," Mrs.Cary replied with a low cry of regret.

"It isn't the actual loss of help, tho' we need it, goodness knows.

But it makes me sad to see them leaving, one by one.

They are such children and so helpless--without a master hand." "Yas'm," agreed Uncle Billy readily.