It's--it's because I'm tired today, I guess likely." "Yes, I guess likely 'tis.

Tired! I shouldn't wonder?
It ain't any of my affairs at all, Mrs.Barnes, and I beg your pardon for sayin' it, but if you don't have some good capable person to take some of the care and managin' of this place off your shoulders you'll be down sick afore the summer's through." Thankful sighed, and then smiled.

"I know I need help, the right kind of help, just as well as you do, Cap'n Bangs," she said.

"But I know, too, that I can't afford to pay for it, so I must get along best I can without it.

As for gettin' sick--well, I can't afford that, either." At dinner John Kendrick met Mr.Heman Daniels and Miss Timpson and Caleb Hammond.