Excerpt from With a Silken Thread and Other Stories, Vol. 3 of 3

There were few people more respected in the neighbourhood than Mattie Todhunter, of Loanin' Head. Left a widow while still almost a young woman, with a large family of boys and girls to bring up and but a poor hungry farm of many acres and small produce to do it on, she had proved both her prudence and her skill in that she had settled up things quite as well as, if not better than, her "master" would have done had he lived - while the management of her children, if rough and something more, had been so far successful in that those who had lived were as fine a set of lads and lasses as could be found in the whole country side.

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