Don't you know, dear, that a big establishment means lots of servants, and servants mean worry and strife?
I want to let down the bars for the cow when she moos, and milk her myself." "It takes a skilled mechanic to milk a cow," objected the Major.
"But Patsy's right!" cried her uncle, with conviction.

"We don't want any frills at all.

Just tell your man, Major, to put the place into good living condition." "Patrichia," softly remarked the Major, with an admiring glance at his small daughter, "has more sinse in her frizzled head than both of us put together." "If she hadn't more than you," retorted Uncle John, with a grin, "I'd put a candle inside her noodle and call her a Jack-Lantern.".