"It is hard work to drag her, and the swill tub too."
"Then go a little slower, and give her a chance to do her part. There is one thing that I wish to do myself, and that is the scolding, and I don't wish to have you take it out of my hands."
"If you do it all there won't get much of it done."
"There will be enough. I do not need help. And I can suit myself much better in doing it than any one else can suit me. In future, Lissett, you and Annie O'Brien will carry the swill together. Then you can both work as fast as you please. Jennie, you and Allen may carry together; you can be as slow as you please. I wish to hear no more trouble over the swill."
I intended to arrange their work so as to avoid all collision; but I sometimes failed. When I had put those, whom I thought to be the best of friends, at work together, some little difference would arise and separate them.
Directly I had a call in the prison. Berry could not get on with her white-washing, because Maggie had not done her sweeping, and came to me with a complaint,—
"Maggie won't sweep, and that keeps me waiting. Won't you tell her to sweep so I can white-wash?"
"Maggie, why don't you sweep so that Berry can white-wash?"
"I am, ma'am, as fast as I can. I have got all of the rooms to do before I do the floor."
"You need not wait, Berry. Take a broom and help her."