Mis Starkey said, said she, 'I don't want to spend no more money on it than I can help, but Mr.Starkey must be made comfortable,' says she, them was her very words.

He used to set out on this stoop all day long in the summer, and she alongside him, except when she had to be indoors doing the work.
She didn't keep no regular help.

I did the washing for her, and come in now and then for a day to clean; so she managed very well.
"Then,--Wednesday before last, it was,--he had a bleeding, and sank away like all in a minute, and was gone before the doctor could be had.

Mis Starkey was all stunned like with the shock of it; and before she had got her mind cleared up so's to order about anything, come a telegraph to say her son was down with diphtheria, and his wife with a young baby, and both was very low.

And between one and the other she was pretty near out of her wits.