ways again. He's been at his old trick of walking in his sleep.
I saw him run up the stair in the middle of the night."

"Didn't you go after him, wife?"

"Of course I did--and found him fast asleep in his bed. It's because
he's had so little meat for the last six weeks, I'm afraid."

"It may be that. I'm very sorry. But if it don't please God
to send us enough, what am I to do, wife?"

"You can't help it, I know, my dear good man," returned Martha.
"And after all I don't know. I don't see why he shouldn't get on
as well as the rest of us. There I'm nursing baby all this time,
and I get along pretty well. I'm sure, to hear the little man singing,
you wouldn't think there was much amiss with him."

For at that moment Diamond was singing like a lark in the clouds.
He had the new baby in his arms, while his mother was dressing herself.
Joseph was sitting at his breakfast--a little weak tea, dry bread,
and very dubious butter--which Nanny had set for him, and which he
was enjoying because he was hungry. He had groomed both horses,
and had got old Diamond harnessed ready to put to.

"Think of a fat angel, Dulcimer!" said Diamond.

The baby had not been christened yet, but Diamond, in reading
his Bible, had come upon the word dulcimer, and thought it so pretty
that ever after he called his sister Dulcimer!