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Oh, I was rale vexed for her, I tell ye, but when she took the mattress aff ma bed to protect her sewin' machine frae bombs, I says to masel': 'If I've got to dee, I wud like to dae it as comfortable as I can, an' I'm sure ma Maker'll no objec' to that . . . an' so, at last, I jist tied up ma things in the broon paper, an' said I had enjoyed masel' fine, but was anxious aboot the shop a terrible falsehood, dearie! an' gaed to catch the sax o'clock train, an' catched the yin afore it. . . . An' here I am.
Mom won't like it when I come without 'em this mornin'. She's needin' 'em fur the childern, and she thought they'd be done till this morning a'ready." "Why don't you hire your washin' or buy her a washin'-machine? Then she'd have time to do her own sewin'." "Work don't hurt a body," Mr. Getz maintained. "It's healthy. What's Tillie doin' this morning?"
And he said as I wuz a sewin' it on, he a-holdin' his hat for me, "that Wellington deserved it; he deserved it all." But, as I say, he shed tears to think that his handkerchief wuzn't black-bordered. He said "it wuz a fearful oversight; it would probably make talk." "But," I sez, "mebby it won't be noticed." "Yes, it will," sez he. "It will be noticed."
I've seen mother chasin' her out o' Mis' Day's garden-patch twice a'ready! It seems real good an' homey to see you settin' there sewin' while I'm workin' at the bench. Cephas is down to the store, so I s'pose your father's off somewheres?"
We had too much shooting and stabbing, though. It was an English officer, that last one. What a row! In the night I left for Tunisia." "Oh, yes, Tunis," says Lindy. "Something about slaves there, wasn't it?" "Camels also," says Pasha. "I traded in both stolen camels and smuggled slaves." He throws this off as casual as if he was tellin' about sellin' sewin' machines.
Our next scene is hintitled "The Hook and Eye Carders". 'Ere we see the inside of a room in Slumtown, with a mother and three children and the old grandmother sewin' hooks and eyes on cards to be sold in drapers' shops. It ses underneath the pitcher that 384 hooks and 384 eyes has to be joined together and sewed on cards for one penny.
"I dunno how you'll ever git a chancet to wear 'em out in this country seems to me they're most too pretty to wear, anyhow, I can git Marthy Winters to come over and help you she does sewin' and you can use my machine any time you want to. I'd take a hold myself if I didn't have all the baking to do for the dance. That Min can't learn nothing, seems like.
We had to eat what come cheapest, an' when some of the women here wuz a sittin' comfortable o' nights, a knittin' an' sewin' an' readin', mother wuz hangin' aroun' the butchershop, tryin' to beat the butcher down on the scraps that wasn't good enough for you folks. Soon as we young 'uns was big enough to do anything we wuz put to work.
By that time, Mona's health was pretty well broke up, her eyes was not as good as they used to be, an' she had to give up the sewin'. She fell in with the old woman who peddled shoestrings, and, by her advice, started in with her apple-stand. They'd been together ever since an' managed to earn a livin' between 'em.
One got up an' he wanted th' dear sisters to raise a little money to build a fence; a fence, y' understand? An' another got up an' wanted th' dear sisters t' have a sewin' bee, gossip buzz, A call 'em, to raise a little money for the Lord t' build a school. Losh! A stood it long as A could! Then A jumped up! 'Twas a hot night, an' A'd ripped off m' coat!
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