You are going to have a great deal better home than this.

You know where Rice Corner is, the district over east ?" Mary replied that she did, and Jenny continued: "We all went over there yesterday to see Mrs.Mason.

She's a real nice lady, who used to live in Boston, and be intimate with ma, until three or four years ago, when Mr.Mason died.

We didn't go there any more then, and I asked Rose what the reason was, and she said Mrs.Mason was poor now, and ma had 'cut her;' and when I asked her what she _cut_ her with, she only laughed, and said she believed I didn't know any thing.

But since then I've learned what it means." "What does it ?" asked Mary, and Jenny replied: "If a person dies and leaves no money, no matter how good his folks are, or how much you like them, you mustn't know them when you meet them in the street, or you must cross over the other side if you see them coming; and then when ladies call and speak about them, you must draw a great long breath, and wonder 'how the poor thing will get along, she was so dreadful extravagant.' I positively heard mother say those very words about Mrs.Mason; and what is so funny, the washwoman the same day spoke of her, and cried when she told how kind she was, and how she would go without things herself for the sake of giving to the poor.
It's queer, isn't it ?" Ah, Jenny, Jenny, you've much of life yet to learn! After a moment's pause, Jenny proceeded: "This Mrs.Mason came into the country, and bought the prettiest little cottage you ever saw.