I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.