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If each had brought such a farm into the family with her, father

Bates could have endured six hters-in-law, very well indeed, for land was his one and only

God His respect for Agatha was h, for in

addition to her farht and action, and was amazed by the fact that she was about

her hen several of the blooirls he had selected for

wives for his sons were confined to the sofa with a pain, while

not one of them schemed, planned, connived with her husband and

piled up the atha did, therefore she stood at the head

of the women of the Bates family; while she was considered to have

worked miracles in the heart of Adam Bates, for with his exception

no man of the family ever had been seen to touch a wohtest form of endearment,

assistance or courtesy "Women are to work and to bear children,"

said the elder Bates "Put them at the first job when they are

born, and at the second at eighteen, and keep theression several of the Bates sons and

daughters would produce families that, with a couple of pairs of

twins, would equal the sixteen of the elder Bates; but not so

Agatha She had one son of fifteen and one daughter of ten, and

she said that was all she intended to have, certainly it was all

she did have; but she further aggravated

that she had had them because she wanted them; at such times as

she intended to; and that she had the boy first and five years the

older, so that he could look after his sister when they went into

company Also she walked up and sat upon Adam's lap whenever she