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Title: Living on a Little
Author: Caroline French Benton
Release Date: May 25, 2013 [eBook #42803]
Language: English
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LIVING ON A LITTLE
LIVING ON
A LITTLE
BY
CAROLINE FRENCH BENTON
Author of "A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl,"
"Margaret's Saturday Mornings," etc
BOSTON * DANA ESTES &
COMPANY * PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1908
By Dana Estes & Company
To all those housekeepers, young and old,
who are engaged in the delightful
task of making one dollar do
the work of two
Thanks are due the editor of Good Housekeeping for permission to reprint the greater part of this book from that magazine.
Contents
CHAPTER I
At the Very Beginning—Dividing the Income
Mrs. Thorne laid down the letter she was reading and looked across the table to her husband, who, as he was industriously engaged in buttering a muffin, paid scant attention to her for the moment. Presently, however, as he became aware of something portentous in the air, he looked up and inquired:
"My dear, you alarm me. What's the matter? Has the bank suspended and are you considering how best to break the news to me, or has Dolly eloped with the ice-man?"
His wife did not relax her important expression as she replied, "Dolly's engaged."
"Engaged!" Mr. Thorne assumed an overwhelming surprise. "You don't say so! Now who in the world can she possibly be engaged to?"
Mrs. Thorne regarded him with scorn.
"Just as though you did not know perfectly well! Who could she possibly be engaged to but Fred Mason? I told you a month ago she was certain to be."
"So you did," was the soothing reply, "but I strive to please, and I thought from your manner that you hoped to astonish me with the news. So she's really and truly engaged. Well, I'm glad of it. Fred's a good fellow in spite of the fact that he has arranged to be a brother-in-law to me when he knows that I hate brothers-in-law; and Dolly's a great girl."
"Dolly's a dear, and I only hope he's half good enough for her. But that is only part of the news in the letter."
Her husband took another muffin and looked interested.
"She wants to come and spend a year with us; if we can take her, father and mother will go abroad. Her idea is to learn how to keep house. Listen to what she says:
"'Dearest Mary:—
"'I don't suppose you will be exactly amazed when I tell you that Fred and I are engaged, for when I wrote you last I realized that you must know what was in the air. And I don't suppose I need say that we are the two happiest people in the world and