And if Jennie Vance comes, the house will be turned upside down in five minutes." Ruth might have known better than to complain to Polly, who always had something in her own experience which was worse than anybody else had known.
"We all have our trials," sighed that sorrowful woman; "if it isn't children, it's aches and pains.

Now, for my part, I've been troubled for ten years with--" Here followed a list of diseases.

Ruth shut her lips together, resolved to say nothing more about her own trials.
"They don't either of them like me," thought Dotty.

"I'm going off in the barn, and perhaps they'll think I'm dead.

Katie," said she, sternly, "I'm going off somewhere, and you mustn't try to find me." Then there was some one else who felt quite alone in the world, and that was little Katie.