hundred-and-three

Updated: May 20, 2025

While she was rolling her sleeves up and tying on her apron she was poor, evidently, but very neat and wholesome in her black dress and the decent cap which crowned her hair while she unpacked the contents of the bag two newspaper parcels full of rather distressing viands, scissors, and a pair of gloves which had done duty more than once, while all these preparations were soberly fulfilling, the agitation of the hundred-and-three was desperate indeed.

Emilie Kip Baker - Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools