"I'll take that butter over to the Professer's home right away," she
said, to herself.

Before leaving Sibylla, the Professor quoted from the "Toiling of
Felix," by Henry Vandyke:

"Hewing wood and drawing water, splitting stones and cleaving
sod, All the dusty ranks of labour, in the regiment of God, March
together toward His triumph, do the task His hands prepare;
Honest toil is holy service, faithful work is praise and prayer."

They who work without complaining, do the holy will of God.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of earth is
toil.

Sibylla Linsabigler was a healthy, large-boned, solidly-built, typical
"Pennsylvania German" girl. Her clear, pinkish complexion looked as if
freshly scrubbed with soap and water. A few large, brown freckles
adorned the bridge of her rather broad, flat nose. She possessed red
hair and laughing, red-brown eyes, a large mouth, which disclosed
beautiful even, white teeth when she smiled, extraordinary large feet
and hands, strong, willing and usually good-natured, although
possessed of a quick temper, as her red hair indicated. Kind-hearted
to a fault, she was of great assistance to Aunt Sarah, although she
preferred any other work to that of cooking or baking. She kept the
kitchen as well as other parts of the house, to quote Aunt Sarah,
"neat as a pin," and did not object to any work, however hard or
laborious, as long as she was not expected to do the thinking and