Each pays what they can; that 's independent, and makes us feel better but that dear woman does a thousand things that money can't pay for, and we feel her influence all through the house.

I 'd rather be married, and have a home of my own; but next to that, I should like to be an old maid like Miss Mills." Polly's sober face and emphatic tone made Fanny laugh, and at the cheery sound a young girl pushing a baby-carriage looked round and smiled.
"What lovely eyes!" whispered Fanny.
"Yes, that 's little Jane," returned Polly, adding, when she had passed, with a nod and a friendly "Don't get tired, Jenny," "we help one another at our house, and every fine morning Jenny takes Johnny Kean out when she goes for her own walk.

That gives his mother time to rest, does both the children good, and keeps things neighborly.

Miss Mills suggested it, and Jenny is so glad to do anything for anybody, it 's a pleasure to let her." "I 've heard of Miss Mills before.

But I should think she would get tired to death, sitting there making hoods and petticoats day after day," said Fanny, after thinking over Jenny's story for a few minutes, for seeing the girl seemed to bring it nearer, and make it more real to her.
"But she don't sit there all the time.