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Updated: June 29, 2025
It was his mother's voice, and Dab felt like "minding" very promptly that morning. "Dabney, my boy, come here to the gate." "Ham Morris is having his house painted," he remarked, as he walked towards his mother. "Is he?" she said. "We'll go and see about it." The gate between the two "side-yards" had been there from time immemorial, and-they walked right through.
They had no room for gardens or even for little green side-yards where one might spend a summer evening. The Corporation, as this compact village was called by those who lived in it, was small but solid; you fancied yourself in the heart of a large town when you stood mid-way of one of its short streets, but from the street's end you faced a wide green farming country.
The dining-room windows of all the houses threw bright patches on the snow of the side-yards; the windows of other rooms, except those of the kitchens, were dark, for the rule of the place was Puritanical in thrift, as in all things; and the good housekeepers disputed every record of the meters with unhappy gas-collectors. There was no better housekeeper in town than Mrs.
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