"When does it begin?"
"Why don't you go? I can stay here an' take care of crumple-horn and Louis well enough."
"Bless you, child, I wouldn't think of leaving you alone three or four days."
"Would you be gone as long as that?"
"A great many stay the whole week, and I did one year; but it was almost too tedious."
"Well, both of us couldn't be away at the same time, an'—"
"Why not?"
"Because the cow must be milked an' put in the barn."
"Daniel Chick's daughters have always done that for me, and would again."