"If we should be driven from our coffee dinners to tea with no milk in it!" said Hugh, softly, in mock dismay.
"Wouldn't!" said Fled. "We'd beat up an egg and put it in the coffee."
"We couldn't afford it," said Hugh, smiling.
"Could! cheaper than to keep the cows. I'll have some sugar at any rate, I'm determined. Philetus!"
"Marm!"
"I wish, when you have got a good pile of wood chopped, you would make some troughs to put under the maple trees you know how to make them, don't you?"
"I do."
"I wish you would make some you have pine logs out there large enough, haven't you?"
"They hadn't ought to want much of it there's some 'gregious big ones!"
"I don't know how many we shall want, but a hundred or two, at any rate; and the sooner the better. Do you know how much sugar they make from one tree?"