He had already received six hundred pounds of pork and more wages than were due him as advances for the coming year.

What should be done?
asked the manager.

"His Wife and Children will be in a most Distressed Situation." As I examined the papers that followed I said to myself: "I will see if I know what his answer will be." I thought I did, and so it proved.

Back from Philadelphia came the answer: "Altho' she can have no _right_ to the Meat, I would have none of it taken from her .-- You may also let her have middlings from the Mill,--and until the house may become indispensably necessary for the succeeding Miller, let her remain in it .-- As she went from these parts she can have no friends (by these I mean relations) where she is.

If therefore she wishes to return back to his, or her own relations, aid her in doing so." Not always were his problems so somber as this.