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`` Well , things were different when we was young married folks , an ' used to do our own spinnin ' an ' weavin ' . '' `` I guess so ! '' Mrs. Lamson dropped her busy hands in her lap , and leaned back a moment , in eager retrospect . `` Do you recollect that Friday we spun from four o'clock in the mornin ' till six that evenin ' , because the men-folks had gone in the ma ` sh , an ' all we had to do was to stop an ' feed the critters ? An ' Hiram Peasley come along with tinware , an ' you says , ` If you 're a mind to stop at my house , an ' throw a colander an ' a long-handled dipper over the fence , under the flowerin ' - currant , an ' wait till next time for your pay , I 'll take 'em , ' says you . ` But I ai n't goin ' to leave off spinnin ' for anything less 'n Gabriel 's trumpet , ' says you . I remember your sayin ' that , as if 't was only yisterday ; an ' arter you said it , you kind o ' drawed down your face an ' looked scairt .