2/5 Now, let's set down everything, and see what it comes to." So saying, she sat down on a low stool with her paper on her knees, and her pencil in her hand. "How much corn-meal do you eat in a week, Aunt Matilda ?" "Dunno," said she, "'spect about a couple o' pecks." "Oh, Aunt Matilda!" cried Kate, "our whole family wouldn't eat two pecks in a week." "Well, then, a half-peck," said she; "'pends a good deal on how many is living in a house." "Yes; but we only mean this for you, Aunt Matilda. We don't mean it for anybody else." "Well, then, I reckon a quarter of a peck would do, for jest me." "We will allow you a peck," said Harry, "and that will be twenty-five cents a week. Set that down, Kate." "All right," said Kate. |