human
Why, you don't say so, Nelly! she replied.
gpt
Well, I dare say you'll make a nice little penny. Eggs is thirty cents, and butter thirty-five to forty: your mother's ought to be forty. What're you goin' to do with the money?
human
Why, it isn't for myself! said Nelly, in a tone of great astonishment:
gpt
See here, child: you let me carry them things up to town for ye. Ye stay here with Luce. I've got to go up anyway to-day or to-morrow. It's too fur for ye to walk.
human
Oh, no, Billy, thank you! said Nelly.
gpt
It isn't too far. I've often and often walked up to the hill where you look right into the streets. And I want to go; I wouldn't miss it for any thing.
human
Well, I'm goin' along with yer, anyhow, said Billy.
gpt
Luce, you get me that flour-sack.
human
Ain't that a shame, Luce, he said,
gpt
You're jest off all wrong now, Billy, replied Lucinda.
human
It's you that don't know miners. There wouldn't a man in Rosita say a rough word before Nelly no sooner'n you would. They'll jest all take to her: you see if they don't. And it's a real sensible thing for the children to do. I've been thinking o' doing the same thing myself. There's lots o' money to be made off eggs.
gpt
Well, well, he said,
human
Well, I don't see nothin' so very dreadful in it, replied Lucinda.
gpt
The gal's got the sense of a woman: she'll look out for herself as well as if she was twenty; and there's lots o' money to be made off eggs; I tell you that.