Mother Meg

ry my hand at to-day?" said Meg

I can't te

to make s

f I didn't guess as much when I saw y

referring to the pan, but to the bread, "sh

led at that

t at home, for I'm sure

you know there are a great many things that h

et 'em all right, and then

ughed

e German yeast, and s

I pass along to my work, an

early," said Meg, "or it

he question which had been burning on her lips all yes

" she

little

much mind if I were

tness of his face. Did his little woman already begin to mi

?" he aske

ur mother said-if I help

hat?" asked Jem, lookin

e to help her for nothing-out of love to y

e can do alone, she would have to pay some one else, and would a deal rather the m

gave my tim

eedn't do it unless

ll me to help your mother all I ca

bodies, if she were ill or needed it. But it's differen

Jenny'?"

s out a deal. I fancy they have some sort of little income, for she do

she iron f

or two with the washing, and likes to do most of that

to earn something if I

all your life! But, Meg, I've looked at things a long time, and I've laid awake at night too thinkin' of them, and I've come to learn

and brightened up into their own se

me to stand like this: 'Is this what your d

ew moments, and Jem got his hat. Th

et the flour,

ou've said, Jem. I think m

ed her

s we're doubtful of to wh

en he was gone, an

was heard coming up, and

yeast di

sell it-half an ounce, Jem; that wi

rig

he bottom, and then she turned round

locking her door, which they were obliged to do

k a rather far-off vo

o be seen. The bed-room door adjoining was ajar, but Meg hesitated t

m within said, "Come in here, ple

e further of two beds, and a wan pale face, belonging to

in?" asked Meg, hesitatin

she promised to be up early, and she ain't

es." She had hardly ever heard

wn, will yer. You didn't 'spect to

answer

id shook

you before I've been made str

kind to go back, she sat down on the edge of a

y," said her mother-in-law's lo

ou?" as

elieved any one would ha' persuaded me to do. But it was

?" echo

o move up here, out of my back room-yours

"was it you who

t's bad I holler out to them to shut the door; and most times I don't mind it, and where I lie I can see 'em in there, going about and ironing, and fussing; and it ain't half so quiet

this mixture of self-interest and helplessness what

ow what it was made me so bad; but I had told Jem that evening, flat, that nothing on earth

d I laid there groaning for a long time. At last I man

; 'come in and see what

en he goes up-stairs and calls his mother. But as luck would have it, the neighbour on

ut he comes over to me as quiet and kind as any woman, and he says, 'Miss Hobson

some hot water from his mother's boiler, and puts a shawl over my head, and makes me breathe

ery bad, he says to me sort of soft-like, 'Look to Jesus, M

im without tak

nurse, and he says to me, 'Miss Hobson, I'm a deal more anxious for you to get the Breath of L

'What do you mean by

nd getting forgiveness of all our sins

ow how to co

Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast ou

thing to get new life. So I laid myself back on my pillow and thou

ys he; 'you

me,' says I, c

ept into my room there he was, si

s. I'm awful bad, but He's said as

up and lights my fire, and warms some gruel his mother had brought for me,

what?'

t's how it was as I moved u

ds, her interest in her Jem swallowed up in her great

telling me," she

nvalid sp

a selfish old woman still; but my Jesus is going to cure me of that. I tell Him ab

g close to her, "I do want to get

my

u want to so much, y

e answered, "tea

Seymour pushed open the door, an

Her old father says as her uncle has come and

hastened to explain why she was

y time of need. Do you mean you

g, "if it would be

looked exceed

me at once?

bread," answered Meg,

said Mrs.

sm

d I'll bring you a loaf, mother! P

"and I'll come down to see you make it one of these days. Dear, dea