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"To pay for having been born last? Not a bit irl in the family owes you as much for life

as I do; it is up to the others to pay back in service, after they

are of age, if it is to me I have done my share If Father were

not the richest farmer in the county, and one of the richest men,

it would be different He can afford to hire help for you, quite

as well as he can for hiet to do the work here?"

"You'd have to double your assistants You could not hire tomen ould come here and do so ive up teaching, and stay here to slave

at your option, for gingham dresses and cowhide shoes, of your

selection If I were a boy, I'd work three years iven two hundred acres of land, have a house and barn

built for iven me, as every boy in this

family has had at twenty-one"

"A man is a man! He founds a family, he runs the Government! It

is a different matter," said Mrs Bates

"It surely is; in this family But I think, even with us, a man

would have rather a difficult proposition on his hands to found a

family without a woht! Go on to Adaet"

"I'll have the satisfaction of knowing that Nancy Ellen gets

dinner, anyway," said Kate as she passed through the door and

followed the long path to the gate, fro beside the

road in the direction of her brother's hole and double buggies in the barn;

but it never occurred to Kate that sheSo she followed the path