When did she come ?" "This afternoon," said Miriam, "and she is cooking supper now.

But, Ralph," she continued, "there is hardly any wood in the kitchen.

We have--she has used up nearly all that was brought in this morning." "Well," said Ralph, "there is plenty of it cut, in the woodhouse." "But, Ralph," said Miriam, "I don't like to ask her to go after the wood, herself, and some is needed now." "Mike is just as busy as he can be down at the barn," said her brother, "and I cannot call him now.

If you show her the woodhouse, she can get what she wants with very little trouble, and Mike will bring in a lot of it to-night." "But, Ralph," persisted his sister, "I don't want to ask her to stop her cooking and go out and get wood.

It does not look like good management, for one thing, and for other reasons I do not want to do it.