"I like 'em; only I never smelled 'em all at the same time before.

And I like the lozengers VERY much." The two or three days which Captain Shad had set as the limit of the child's visit passed; as did the next two or three.

She was busy and, apparently, enjoying herself.

She helped Isaiah with the housework, and although he found the help not altogether unwelcome, he was inclined to grumble a little at what he called her "pesterin' around." "I never see such a young-one," he told his employers.

"I don't ask her to do dishes nor fill pitchers nor nothin'; she just does it on her own hook." "Humph!" grunted Captain Shadrach.