He's John Pendleton.

He lives all by himself in the big house on Pendleton Hill.
He won't even have any one 'round ter cook for him--comes down ter the hotel for his meals three times a day.

I know Sally Miner, who waits on him, and she says he hardly opens his head enough ter tell what he wants ter eat.

She has ter guess it more'n half the time--only it'll be somethin' CHEAP! She knows that without no tellin'." Pollyanna nodded sympathetically.
"I know.

You have to look for cheap things when you're poor.