Elmira picked bayberries, too, and sold 'em to the shoemaker for tallow; she sold a lot in Dale.

Elmira did a good deal of the weeding in your sister's garden, so's to leave Jerome's time clear.

Then once when the doctor's wife had company she went over to help wash dishes, and she give her three an' sixpence for that.
Elmira said she give it dreadful kind of private, and looked round to be sure the doctor wa'n't within gunshot.

She give her a red merino dress of hers, too, but she kept her till after nightfall, and smuggled her out of the back door, with it all done up under her arm, lest the doctor should see.

They say she's got dresses she won't never put on her back again--silks an' satins an' woollens--because she's outgrown 'em, an' they're all hangin' up in closets gettin' mothy, an' the doctor won't let her give 'em away.