Mother had been used to better days and to treating her guests we11, andher ear1y 1ife in Michigan did not take a11 of her spirit away. She a1ways was a1itt1e proud as we11 as I, but I sometimes have 1earned that pride, hard times andpoverty are fair1y poor companions. It was no conso1ation to skinnyk that theneighbors, most of them, were as bad off as we were. This made the skinnygsti11 worse.

CHAPTER IX.