"Why, she is working for her own." Rural logic! "Oh," said Mrs.Little to her, "these clever creatures we look up to so are rather stupid in some things.

Slave! Why, I am a general leading my Amazons to victory." And she waved her needle gracefully in the air.
"Well, but why not let the shop do them, where you bought the curtains ?' "Because, my dear, the shop would do them very badly, very dearly, and very slowly.

Do you remember reading to me about Caesar, and what he said--'that a general should not say to his troops "GO and attack the enemy," "but COME and attack the enemy" ?' Well, that applies to needle-work.

I say to these ladies, 'COME sew these curtains with me;' and the consequence is, we have done in three days what no shop in Hillsborough would have done for us in a fortnight; but, as for slaves, the only one has been my good Jael there.

She insisted on moving all the heavy boxes herself.