"Supper's ready, Seth.

Will you an' the stranger set ?" She had placed the pine table in the middle of the room, and Dick noticed that it was large enough for five or six persons.

He put his saddle bags and blankets in a corner and he and the man drew up chairs.
He had seldom beheld a more cheerful scene.

In a great fireplace ten feet wide big logs roared and crackled.

Corn cakes, vegetables, and two kinds of meat were cooking over the coals and a great pot of coffee boiled and bubbled.