22 KINDLY WORDS WIN KINDLY DEEDS. 



tage, as I was not married. She worked, too, 

 a little in the garden, and every little was a 

 help then, for there was every thing to do 

 except the kitchen - garden ; that was in 

 order. There was not a mould-heap no- 

 thing to hand, all to make. It was tight 

 work, I assure you. There was the cow- 

 man to please, for the cart that brought 

 fodder for his yard was the only one I could 

 get. Then there was the keeper on the look- 

 out to pick a hole in my coat about disturb- 

 ing his game when I went in the woods for 

 leaf-mould; and the coachman, he would 

 not half muck his stables out, for he said he 

 wanted his horses to lay warm, and so had 

 clean straw over a foot of dung. Clipping 

 wasn't the fashion then. When they all 

 said 'no' to my wants, I said, " Yery well," 

 and thanked 'em ; and ' no' they said a long 

 while, but yet I thanked 'em, till I fairly 

 tired 'em out into saying l yes ;' and as I 

 showed myself ready to oblige them, they 

 soon took to obliging me. People can stand 

 quarrelling with all their lives; it's like 

 whetting your scythe with your rubber, 

 the longer you do it the sharper it gets ; 

 but they can't stand good nature ; let 'em 



