We didn't ever tell anybody just how much; but I didn't care; I'd always wanted one; an' I made up my mind I'd rather have that if I had to go without some other things.

An' my husband wanted it too; he was one of the Maxwells, you know, an' I think they all had a taste for such things if they wa'n't too tight to get 'em.

As for me, I had to do without all my young days, an' I have to now except for the few things we got together along then when my poor husband seemed to be prospering; but I've always been crazy over images, an' I've always thought one in a front yard was about the most ornamental thing anybody could have.

I've told Flora a good many times that I believed if I'd had advantages when I was young, I should have made images.

Don't you think that one's handsome, Esther ?" "Real handsome," said Mrs.Field.
"Some folks have found fault with it because it didn't have more clothes on, but it ain't as if it was in a cemetery.