ervant is rarely called upon for extra attendance.
In the Northern country the whole labor of a family is frequently performed
by one female, while five or six will do the same amount of work in the
South. A servant at the South is rarely called upon at night; only in cases
of absolute necessity. Negroes are naturally sleepy-headed--they like to
sit up late at night,--in winter, over a large fire, nodding and bumping
their heads against each other, or in summer, out of doors; but they take
many a nap before they can get courage to undress and go regularly to bed.
They may be much interested in a conversation going on, but it is no
violation of their code of etiquette to smoke themselves to sleep while
listening. Few of the most faithful servants can keep awake well enough to
be of real service in cases of sickness. There is a feeling among their
owners, that they work hard during the day and should be allowed more rest
than those who are not obliged to labor. "Do not disturb servants when they
are eating," is the frequent charge of a Southern mother, "they have not a
great many pleasures within their reach; never do any thing that will
lessen their comforts in the slightest degree." Mrs. Weston, even in her
own deep sorrow, was not unmindful of others; she frequently tried to
induce Phillis to go home, knowing that she must be much fatigued. "I
cannot feel tired, Phillis; a mother could not sleep with her only child as
Alice is; I do not require the rest that you do."

"You needs it more, Miss Anna, though you don't think so now. I can take
care of myself. Unless you drive me away, I shan't go until God's will be
done, for life or death."

Miss Janet often laid down and slept for an hour or two, and returned
refreshed to the sick chamber. Her voice retained its cheerfulness and kept
Mrs. Weston's heart from failing. "Hope on, Anna," she would say, "as long
as she breathes we must not give her up; how many have been thought
entirely gone, and then revived. We must hope, and God will do the rest."

This "hoping on" was one great cause of Cousin Janet's usefulness during a
long life; religion and reason alike demand it of us. Many grand and noble
actions have been done in the world, that never could have been
accomplished without hoping on. When we become discouraged, how heavy the
task before us; it is like drooping the eyes, and feebly putting forth the
hands to find the way, when all appears to us darkness; but let the