Upon her return she was allowed to eat her breakfast, consisting of a bowl of skimmed milk, with brown bread crusts, which she was told to eat, standing, by the kitchen table, and must not be over ten minutes about it.

Meanwhile the family were taking their morning meal in the dining-room.

This over, she was placed on a cricket to wash the common dishes; she was to be in waiting always to bring wood and chips, to run hither and thither from room to room.
A large amount of dish-washing for small hands followed dinner.

Then the same after tea and going after the cows finished her first day's work.
It was a new discipline to the child.

She found some attractions about the place, and she retired to rest at night more willing to remain.