He can afford to hire help for you, quite as well as he can for himself." "Hire help! Who would I get to do the work here ?" "You'd have to double your assistants.

You could not hire two women who would come here and do so much work as I do in a day.

That is why I decline to give up teaching, and stay here to slave at your option, for gingham dresses and cowhide shoes, of your selection.

If I were a boy, I'd work three years more and then I would be given two hundred acres of land, have a house and barn built for me, and a start of stock given me, as every boy in this family has had at twenty-one." "A man is a man! He founds a family, he runs the Government! It is a different matter," said Mrs.Bates.
"It surely is; in this family.

But I think, even with us, a man would have rather a difficult proposition on his hands to found a family without a woman; or to run the Government either." "All right! Go on to Adam and see what you get." "I'll have the satisfaction of knowing that Nancy Ellen gets dinner, anyway," said Kate as she passed through the door and followed the long path to the gate, from there walking beside the road in the direction of her brother's home.