I had a cow at one time, but all that's left is the house she lived in.

Now, draw over to the table and have your supper." At any other time Huldah would have been shy of eating before a stranger, for in the caravan good manners were only a subject for sneers and laughter, and she remembered enough of her mother's teaching to know how shocking to ordinary eyes Mr.and Mrs.Smith's behaviour would have seemed.

To-night, though, she was too ravenously hungry for shyness to have much play.

She tried to remember all she could of what her mother had taught her, and got through fairly creditably.
"Now," said Mrs.Perry, when that wonderful, glorious meal was at last ended, "where did you think of going for the night ?" "I don't know," sighed Huldah, wistfully.

"I hadn't thought of anywhere perticler.