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`` And milk you her dry . Butter from me the widow fach shall have . And give ladlings of the hogshead to my pigs and scatter food for my hens . '' She tore a baston from a tree , trimmed it and blackened it with blacking , and at noon she set forth to the house of her daughter-in-law ; and she carried in a basket butter , two dead fowls , potatoes , carrots , and a white-hearted cabbage , and she came to Josi 's house in the darkness which is in the morning , and it was so that she rested on the threshold ; and in the bright light Mary Ann opened the door , and was astonished . `` Mam-in-law , '' she said , `` there 's nasty for you to come like this . Speak what you want . Sitting there is not respectable .