"Don't you ever have any meat or chicken or fish hash or anything?"
"When my a'nt comes we do."
"Then your mother isn't really sick?"
"She feels as if she was, and she says that's just as bad."
"I'm going to be a hired girl when I grow up, and go out to work where I can make pies and cakes," Mabel said.
"I'm going to be a cook on a vessel," Moses said, "and get learned how to make vittles."
"I'm going to be a bake-cart," Madget said.
"Listen to her. Don't you know you can't be a bakery cart?" Moses jeered.
"You gotter be the one that drives it," Mabel contributed.
"I wanter be a bake-cart and curry the food around all the time."