"There's always waste with children," she explained, "and I got five.

You can't think the load off one's shoulders when they're packed to school at nine o'clock.
And that, I dessay," she wound up lucidly, "is what softened me t'ards you.

Do you go to school, now ?" "Never did," answered Tilda, taking the plate and laying it before Godolphus, who fell-to voraciously.
"I 'd like to tell that to the attendance officer," said Mrs.Damper in a wistful tone.

"But p'r'aps it might get you into trouble ?" "You 're welcome." "He do give me a lot of worry; and it don't make things easier Damper's threatenin' to knock his 'ead off if ever he catches the man darkenin' our door.

Never been to school, aven't you?
I 'd like to tell 'im, and that, if there's a law, it ought to be the same for all.