Maw's Vacation

"Excerpt from the book..."Times has changed, says Maw to herself, says she. Things ain't like whatthey used to be. Time was when I worked from sunup to sundown, and wedidn't have no daylight-saving contraptions on the old clock, neither.The girls was too little then, and I done all the work myself--cooking,sweeping, washing and ironing, suchlike. I never got to church Sundaysbecause I had to stay home and get the Sunday dinner. Like enough they'dbring the preacher home to dinner. You got to watc