“Isn’t there an almshouse in Riverdale?” asked Henry.
“Why, she don’t want to go to the almshouse. How would you like to go to the almshouse, Henry?”
“I shouldn’t like it; but I am not a pauper.”
“What’s a pauper?” asked Flora.
“Why, a poor person that has to be taken care of by the town or city.”
“You may be a pauper one of these days.”
“I guess not.”
“Would you like to be sent off to the almshouse, if you were?”
“I don’t know but I should.”
“Well, Mrs. White don’t, any way. And I am going to do something to help her.”