The bridegroom's heart was full of exultant joy.
David writes: "Having gotten my wife, I thought I was completely made up, and needed nothing more in the whole world." He soon found his mistake, and awoke to the consciousness that he needed everything, and had nothing.

He had no furniture, no cabin, no land, no money.

And he had a wife to support.

His only property consisted of a cheap horse.

He did not even own a rifle, an article at that time so indispensable to the backwoodsman.
After spending a few days at David's father's, the bridegroom and bride returned to the cabin of her father, the Irishman.