"She ought to be ashamed of herself, to leave you without any one to help you." "Well," replied Miriam "she said she wasn't regularly employed, anyway, and there were plenty of cooks in the town that I could get, and that she was obliged to go.

You see, the colored church in Thorbury has just got a new minister, and he has to board somewhere; and as soon as Phoebe heard that, she made up her mind to take a house and board him; and she did it before anybody else could get the chance.

Mike, her husband, who works for us, talked to her and we talked to her, but it wasn't of any use.

I think she considers it one of the greatest honors in the world to board a minister.

Mike does not believe in that sort of business, but he says that Phoebe has always been in the habit of doing what she wants to, and he is getting used to it." "But it is impossible for you to do all the work," said Dora.
"Oh, well," replied Miriam, "some of it doesn't get done, and some of it I am helped with.