It was consid'able more'n a lot--in fact, a putty sizable place.

She thought the sun rose an' set where Billy P.was, but she took a crotchit in her head, and wouldn't ever sign no papers fer that, an' lucky fer him too.

The' was a house on to it, an' he had a roof over his head anyway when he died six or seven years after he married, an' left her with a boy to raise.

How she got along all them years till Charley got big enough to help, I swan! I don't know.

She took in sewin' an' washin', an' went out to cook an' nurse, an' all that, but I reckon the' was now an' then times when they didn't overload their stomechs much, nor have to open the winders to cool off.