'Mother,' he said bitterly, 'as I have come, so I will go.

All I ask of you is that you will allow me and mine to lie in your stable to-night.

I give you my word that we'll be gone by break of day, and trouble you no further!' Mrs.Hall, the mother, changed at that.

'O no,' she answered hastily; 'never shall it be said that I sent any of my own family from my door.
Bring 'em in, Philip, or take me out to them.' 'We will put 'em all into the large bedroom,' said Sally, brightening, 'and make up a large fire.

Let's go and help them in, and call Rebekah.' (Rebekah was the woman who assisted at the dairy and housework; she lived in a cottage hard by with her husband, who attended to the cows.) Sally went to fetch a lantern from the back-kitchen, but her brother said, 'You won't want a light.