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a can of tomatoes. She snapped out "I'm not going to let you have that fruit"! "What fruit?" "That stuff that we have over there". "Oh, the vegetables". "Yes, I want to keep that." "But I have as much right to it as you have, I own half of it" "No, you don't. You didn't order it, or have anything to do with the ordering it." "But I am paying for half of it, and I have a right to use it. I want a can of tomatoes." "Well, go buy 'em then." "Well, if you prefer to keep the canned stuff rather than to keep me, I'll go". "All right." "All right, I'll leave." She went on home, and to bed. I did the upstairs work, then came down to help Rossie with the dinner. Pretty soon she asked if I got the tomatoes as she was ready for them. I said I'd get them. I carried our sheet that needed mending and call Mrs. P several times before I got an answer. She said she was lying down, undressed. I called up about the sheet. Left it and in passing through the kitchen saw the canned good on the table covered with newspapers. I took a can of tomatoes and went back. Pretty soon I heard her dubbing around and a sound of nailing up a box. At dinner she didn't eat any of the tomatoes but looked awful glum. As soon as I could get around to it I went over and said "Mrs. Pelton, I took that can of tomatoes!" She snapped, "I see you did" Then her manner changed and she asked "Well, are we going to quit, or aren't we?" "Yes, we are." "Well," more insinuatingly, "I see that you can't stand it. The work is too hard for you and you are all tired out." "I'm not nearly as tired now and I was before Rossie came." "So, but you're tired out Your nerves are unstrung, you need a rest. If you worked all summer in the heat, then in the Fall where would you be?" "I'd be a nervous wreck, I suppose." "Well, it isn't worth while. It doesn't pay. You don't have to work" - "Oh yes, I'd be obliged to do something." "Well, this is too hard for you," etc. etc. oodles of sympathy. "Well, I'll go tomorrow night." "Well, hadn't you better stay until Monday and straighten up your bills?" "I'll straighten up the bills before I go. I'll attend to everything." So I did, and I put $37 in the bank and gave her her share after taking out the inventory - $4.68. The inventory was 51 or 2 dollars, and of course I had half and paid it out of what was in the Bank, and she got half of