1 70 OBSERVATIONS OF A RANCHWOMAN 



A couple more illustrations, and I have 

 done with ' our help.' 



Having, not without the expenditure of 

 thought and trouble, obtained for the Portly 

 One then on hand what she claimed to have 

 set her heart on, i.e., some outside sewing 

 (for occasional specimens of the type can 

 make dresses), I was somewhat annoyed to 

 see that same ' sewing ' lying around in the 

 dust day after day, while the Portly One 

 reclined at ease and read the sensational 

 newspapers beloved of her class. I therefore 

 urged upon her my friend's need for the dress 

 then in process of making, and that, as a 

 Mexican woman was doing most of the 

 Portly One's housework, the latter might 

 turn her attention to sewing. A burst of 

 wrath, unrestrained, descended upon my 

 head. 



' If you was as tired and exhausted as I is, 

 you wouldn't want to do no sewing !' 



It may here be remarked that I, pre- 

 sumably the invalid, was at that time, in 

 addition to all my other duties, sitting up 

 night after night with a member of the house- 

 hold who was very ill, while this particular 



