t very well. Not that she did not always long for Miss
Mathilda. She hoped and waited and was very certain that sometime,
in one year or in another Miss Mathilda would come back, and then of
course would want her, and then she could take all good care of her
again.

Anna kept all Miss Mathilda's things in the best order. The boarders
were well scolded if they ever made a scratch on Miss Mathilda's
table.

Some of the boarders were hearty good south german fellows and Anna
always made them go to mass. One boarder was a lusty german student
who was studying in Bridgepoint to be a doctor. He was Anna's special
favourite and she scolded him as she used to her old doctor so that he
always would be good. Then, too, this cheery fellow always sang when
he was washing, and that was what Miss Mathilda always used to do.
Anna's heart grew warm again with this young fellow who seemed to
bring back to her everything she needed.

And so Anna's life in these days was not all unhappy. She worked and
scolded, she had her stray dogs and cats and people, who all asked and
seemed to need her care, and she had hearty german fellows who loved
her scoldings and ate so much of the good things that she knew so well
the way to make.

No, the good Anna's life in these days was not all unhappy. She did
not see her old friends much, she was too busy, but once in a great
while she took a Sunday afternoon and went to see good Mrs. Drehten.

The only trouble was that Anna hardly made a living. She charged so
little for her board and gave her people such good things to eat, that
she could only just make both ends meet. The good german priest to
whom she always told her troubles tried to make her have the boarders
pay a little higher, and Miss Mathilda always in her letters urged her
to this thing, but the good Anna somehow could not do it. Her boarders
were nice men but she knew they did not have much money, and then she
could not raise on those who had been with her and she could not ask
the new ones to pay higher, when those who were already there were
paying just what they had paid before. So Anna let it go just as she
had begun it. She worked and worked all day and thought all night how
she could save, and with all the work she just managed to keep living.
She could not make enough to lay any money by.

Anna got so little money that she had all the work to do herself. She
could not pay even the little Sally enough to keep her with her.

No