Strive as boys may, they cannot attend to household matters as do
girls or women, who have been brought into the world knowing how
to perform such tasks, and it is more homelike to see them around.
Nathaniel and I often picture to each other what this village of
Jamestown would be if in each camp, cave, or log hut a woman was in
command, and ever when we talk thus comes into my heart a sickness
for the old homes of England, even though after my mother died
there was none for me; but yet it would do me a world of good even
to look upon a housewife. A most friendly gentleman is Master Hunt,
and even though he is so far above me in station, I never fail of
getting a kindly greeting when I am so fortunate as to meet him.
He comes often to see Captain Smith, for the two talk long and
earnestly over the matter of the Council, and at such times it is
as if he went out of his way to give me a good word.
MASTER HUNT'S PREACHING
Therefore it is that I go to hear him preach whenever the people
are summoned to a meeting beneath the square of canvas in the wood,
and more than once I have heard from him that which has taken the
sickness for home out of my heart.
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