We have to fatten
three, and to feed the rest during the winter. I can not get on well
with only Alice and Edith; so if you are not very lazy, you will stay
with us and help us."
"Humphrey, you think of nothing but your pigs and farmyard."
"And you are too great a hunter to think of any thing but a stag; but
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, in my opinion; and I'll
make more by my farmyard than you ever will by the forest."
"Humphrey has nothing to do with the poultry and eggs, has he, Edward"
they belong to Edith and me, and Jacob shall take them to Lymington
and sell them for us, and get us some new clothes for Sunday, for
these begin to look rather worn--and no wonder."
"No, dearest, the poultry are yours, and I will sell them for you as
soon as you please, and buy what you wish with the money," replied
Jacob. "Let Humphrey make all the money he can with his pigs."
"Yes; and the butter belongs to me, if I make it," said Alice.
"No no," replied Humphrey; "that's not fair; I find cows, and get
nothing for them. We must go halves Alice."
"Well, I've no objection to that," said Alice "because you find the
cows and feed them. I made a pound of butter yesterday, just to try
what I could do; but it's not firm, Jacob.
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