Other women come in to do the extra work, the cleaning up and scouring, and so on.

The expense of employing these women is not great; but still it is an expense.

Old Mrs.
Hodson did everything herself, and the children roughed it how they could, playing in the mire with the pigs and geese.

Afterwards, when old Hodson began to get a little money, they were sent to a school in a market town.
There they certainly did pick up the rudiments, but lived almost as hard as at home.

Old Hodson, to give an instance of his method, would not even fatten a pig, because it cost a trifle of ready money for 'toppings,' or meal, and nothing on earth could induce him to part with a coin that he had once grasped.