A household without any rule; where servants have it all their own way, do what they please, and have what they please, except so far as I, with my feeble health, have kept up government.

I keep my cowhide about, and sometimes I do lay it on; but the exertion is always too much for me.

If St.Clare would only have this thing done as others do--" "And how's that ?" "Why, send them to the calaboose, or some of the other places to be flogged.

That's the only way.

If I wasn't such a poor, feeble piece, I believe I should manage with twice the energy that St.Clare does." "And how does St.Clare contrive to manage ?" said Miss Ophelia.