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Updated: May 25, 2025
Folks used to send 'em to us to bring up; oftentimes they stayed on after they were of age. Sister Lydia came that way. Well, well, she tired of us, Lydy did, poor girl! She went back into the world twenty years ago, now. And Sister Jane, she was a bound-out child, too," he rambled on; "she came here when she was six; she's seventy now." "What!"
And as for his being set to carry trays to a bound-out girl from the almshouse that was the bitterest drop in his cup of woe. He had been sternly prohibited from "hectoring" the little maid, and the prohibition sat heavily upon him. So heavily, indeed, that no matter who had crossed his path when he was again liberated, that person was doomed to suffer what Alfy had been spared.
The social lines in the town, indeed in all the Eastern towns, were not sharply defined as to mistress and maid. True, many households preferred black servants; in not a few some elderly relative looked after the household, or a bound-out girl was trained in industrious ways. There had been some discussion as to what sphere this Miss Winn would occupy.
With which remark she led the way to the foot of the hay-mow and sent up the summons which had caused Montgomery's sudden disappearance. "Alfy! A-A-Alfy!" Her name hissed into her ear partially roused the bound-out girl from a nap she had been taking with the towel in one hand, an unwiped dish in the other. She had the faculty of going to sleep anywhere and any time opportunity offered.
Alfaretta had frankly hated him, and had never been more thankful than when she was assigned to Madam Sturtevant rather than to Mrs. Pettijohn both ladies having entered application for a "bound-out" servant at the very same time.
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