General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1916 Original Publisher: F.A. Stokes Description: It"s an awful thing to be poor, Daphne--real poor. Yet-- she said musingly, "even when you"re real poor you can always find somethin" to give. Like Mis" Sweet. Did I ever tell you about Mis" Sweet? She lived in our village and she was mortal poor all her life. When her husband lived he didn"t do no more work than he had to and she had to git along as best she could, and then when he died she lived with her son, who was so mean and stingy that he made her go to bed at dark so"s she wouldn"t burn kerosene. Subjects: Women philanthropists Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / General Fiction / General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.