You see , nobody wanted me even then . It seems to be my fate . Father and mother had both come from places far away and it was well known they had n't any relatives living . Finally Mrs. Thomas said she 'd take me , though she was poor and had a drunken husband . She brought me up by hand . Do you know if there is anything in being brought up by hand that ought to make people who are brought up that way better than other people ? Because whenever I was naughty Mrs. Thomas would ask me how I could be such a bad girl when she had brought me up by hand -- reproachful-like . `` Mr. and Mrs. Thomas moved away from Bolingbroke to Marysville , and I lived with them until I was eight years old . I helped look after the Thomas children -- there were four of them younger than me -- and I can tell you they took a lot of looking after . Then Mr. Thomas was killed falling under a train and his mother offered to take Mrs. Thomas and the children , but she did n't want me . Mrs. Thomas was at HER wits ' end , so she said , what to do with me . Then Mrs. Hammond from up the river came down and said she 'd take me , seeing I was handy with children , and I went up the river to live with her in a little clearing among the stumps . It was a very lonesome place . I 'm sure I could never have lived there if I had n't had an imagination . Mr. Hammond worked a little sawmill up there , and Mrs. Hammond had eight children . She had twins three times . I like babies in moderation , but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH . I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly , when the last pair came . I used to get so dreadfully tired carrying them about . `` I lived up river with Mrs. Hammond over two years , and then Mr. Hammond died and Mrs. Hammond broke up housekeeping .
She divided her children among her relatives and went XXXXX the States .
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