We be all well and healthy, too." "I wonder you are not broken down with bearing so many children." "Nay, not I! Every fresh baby gives me fresh youth and health--if I do it justice.

Don't you find it so, ma'am ?" "No." "How many hev you hed ?" "One.

A little girl." "Eh, but that's a shame! What does your good man say ?" "He would like more." "I should think he _would_ like more.

And it is only fair and square he should _hev_ more! Poor fellow!" "I do not think so." "Whatever is the matter with thee ?" "I think it is a shame and a great wrong for a woman to spend her life in bearing and rearing children." "To bear and to rear children for His glory is exactly and perfectly what God sent her into the world to do.

It is her work in the days which the Lord her God gives her.