Brother Hotchkins must pray, and I must bear witness, and another must nurse a feeble infant.

We are all honest workmen, and deserve standing-room in the workshop of sweating humanity.

It is only the idle scoffers who stand by and jeer at our efforts to cleanse our house that should be kicked out of the door, as Brother Hotchkins turned out the rowdies.
It was characteristic of the looseness of our family discipline at this time that nobody was seriously interested in our visits to Morgan Chapel.

Our time was our own, after school duties and household tasks were done.

Joseph sold newspapers after school; I swept and washed dishes; Dora minded the baby.