He's wed and dug potatoes everywhere he could git a chance; he's helped 'bout hayin', an' he's split wood.

He's sold some herbs and roots, too, over to Dale.

Jake Noyes he put him up to that.
He come in here one night an' talked to him real sensible.

'There's money 'nough layin' round loose right under your face an' eyes,' says he; 'all the trouble is you're apt to walk right past, with your nose up in the air.

The scent for work an' wages ain't up in the air,' says he; 'it's on the ground.' Jerome he listened real sharp, an' the next day he went off an' got a good passel of boneset an' thoroughwort an' hardback, an' carried it over to Dale, an' sold it for a shilling.
"Elmira has done some spinnin', too; I can't spin much, but she's done well enough.