HOMESICK
"You ought to be contented and not fret for your old home," said the mistress as she looked into the dim eyes of her young Swedish maid. "You are earning good wages, your work is light, every one is kind to you, and you have plenty of friends here."
"Yas'm," said the girl, "but it is not the place where I do be that makes me vera homesick; it is the place where I don't be."