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⟨crows⟩ off the fields, and after they get ⟨home⟩ at night. As for the knitting ⟨the⟩ girls and their mother do, that is chiefly for sale, which helps to pay our ⟨rent⟩.
Mr Johnson lifted up his eyes in silent astonishment at the shifts which honest poverty can make, rather than beg or steal; and was surprised to ⟨think⟩ how many ways of subsisting ⟨there⟩ are, which those who live at their ⟨ease⟩ little suspect. He secretly resolved to be more attentive to his petty expences than he had hitherto been and to be more watchful that nothing was wasted in his family.
But to return to the Shepherd: Mr Johnson told him that as he must needs be at his friend's house, who lived many miles off, that night, on his return he would certainly visit the Shepherd's cottage.
One Sunday afternoon, my wife being very ill, as I was coming out of church, for I went one part of the day, and my eldest daughter the other, so