Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us

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Arthur Timothy Shay. Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us

PREFACE

A LESSON OF PATIENCE

I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT!

TAKING BOARDERS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

PLAIN SEWING; OR, HOW TO ENCOURAGE THE POOR

JESSIE HAMPTON

THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT

AUNT MARY'S PRESERVING KETTLE

HOME AT LAST

GOING HOME

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I WAS very unhappy, from a variety of causes, definable and undefinable. My chambermaid had been cross for a week, and, by talking to my cook, had made her dissatisfied with her place. The mother of five little children, I felt that I had a weight of care and responsibility greater than I could support. I was unequal to the task. My spirits fell under its bare contemplation. Then I had been disappointed in a seamstress, and my children were, as the saying is, "in rags." While brooding over these and other disheartening circumstances, Netty, my chambermaid, opened the door of the room where I was sitting, (it was Monday morning,) and said—

"Harriet has just sent word that she is sick, and can't come to-day."

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"No, it wasn't any such thing. It would have done very well for her to put on as a change to-day and to-morrow."

"Well, ma'am, it's in the wash, and no help for it now," said Netty, quite pertly.

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