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Then came tottering by, an old man, apparently of eighty years, leaning on the arm of his grand-daughter, I supposed a tidy, gentle-looking maiden.
My wage when I came here was but three pound, and I did on it, and was always clean and tidy, which is more than many a lass can say now who gets her seven and eight pound a year; and tea was kept for an afternoon drink, and pudding was eaten afore meat in them days, and the upshot was, people paid their debts better; aye, aye! we'n gone backwards, and we thinken we'n gone forrards."
He and his tidy little wife called on Friend Hopper, from time to time, and always cheered his heart by their respectable appearance, and the sincere gratitude they manifested. The following record stands in the Register: "M.S. called at my house, and spent an hour with me. He is a member of the Society of Methodists, and I really believe he is a reformed man.
As the widow sits on the back steps carefully washing the tidy in a hand basin and with a bar of special soap highly recommended by Dick, she looks over into the next yard and calls to Jimmy Rand and asks him whether he's going to march with the rest of the school children and will there be anything special on the programme this year. And he tells her sure he's going to march.
But at last everything was finished, and we were about to settle down to the enjoyment of a tidy, cheerful little home when Major Bagley appeared the second time, and within two hours Faye was notified that his quarters had been selected by him! We are at present in two rooms and a shed that happened to be unoccupied, and I feel very much as though I was in a second-hand shop.
One evening, all the party walked to carry to Hannah Higgins's little girl a pinafore that Annie had been making. She was a nice, tidy woman, but there was little furniture in her house, and she looked very poor. The garden was large, and in pretty good order; and there was an empty pig-sty, into which Annie peeped significantly. "No, Miss Annie, we haven't no pig," said Mrs. Higgins.
The bells moved too slowly for either the second or the third peal, and we had twenty minutes at our disposal. We were cool and tidy by the time that the little "Tom Tinkler" bell began to "hurry up." "You're coming, aren't you?" said I, checked at the churchyard gate by an instinct of some hesitation on Isaac's part. "Well, I suppose I am, sir," said the bee-master, and in he came.
A large Gothic doorway, in a high fragment of ancient wall, admits you to a garden-like enclosure, of great extent, from which you are further introduced into an extraordinarily tidy little parlour, where two good nuns sit at work. I have never seen a woman who had got her lesson better than this little trotting, murmuring, edifying nun.
When the shower was over, we walked through the town, which is clean and tidy, being laid out in squares, after the American style. The houses are all of wood, and generally have verandahs overhanging the street. They are seldom more than one story high, and nearly all have a little greenery about them.
"Little enough of the Better, I'm afraid, and Lord knows how much of the Worse." I stopped her again with the promised five-pound note, and opened the room door. "Now, ma'am," I said, "go to your room; take off your bonnet, and put your hair as tidy as you please." Mrs. Baggs raised her eyes and hands to heaven, exclaimed "Disgraceful!" and flounced out of the room in a passion.
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