"Thank you; but I'd rather not. They pay me rent for the oven and cooking-places at the back of the mill: and will have to pay more for the new dining-room. I don't want it to fall into a charity. I don't want donations. Once let in the principle, and I should have people going and talking, and spoiling the simplicity of the whole thing."

'Thank you; but I'd rather not. They pay me rent for the oven and cooking-places at the back of the mill. I don't want it to fall into a charity. I don't want donations. 