Precious little bringing up she'll get at the Appletons', I can tell you that.

They keep her because they're her nearest of living kin, which isn't very near, after all; fourth or fifth cousins to her father, or something like that.

Any-how, they're all she's got, and her father made some arrangement with them before he died.

Left a little money to pay her board, they say, but I've heard she works just the same as if she was living on charity." "That's the truth," said Jake; "she does.

Talk about bringin' up.