While they were baking she ran over and invited Charlotte and her mother.

She did not see Cephas; he had gone to draw some wood.
"I'd like to have him come, too," she said, as she went out; "but I dunno as he'd eat anything I've got for tea." "Land! he eats anything when he goes out anywhere to tea," replied Mrs.Barnard.

"He was over to Hannah's a while ago, an' he eat everything.

He eats pie-crust with shortenin' now, anyway.

He got so he couldn't stan' it without.