The whole capital with which they commenced life consisted of the clothes they had on, a farm-horse, two cows, and two calves.
In this emergence the good old Quaker, for whom David had worked, came forward, and loaned him fifteen dollars.

In that wilderness, food, that is game and corn, was cheap.

But as nearly everything else had to be brought from beyond the mountains, all tools and furniture commanded high prices.

With the fifteen dollars, David and his little wife repaired to a country store a few miles distant, to furnish their house and farm.

Under these circumstances, the china-closet of the bride must have been a curiosity.