Altogether the three families numbered about sixteen persons, each family having its separate set of rooms, but all dining at one table.

How did they do it?
It seemed easy enough to them.

They were serious people in a sense, although always cheerful and sometimes hilarious when together of an evening, or at their meals.

But they regarded life as a serious matter, a state of probation; they were non-smokers, total abstainers, diligent at their work, united, profoundly religious.

A fresh wonder came to light when I found that this poor woodman, with so large a family to support, who spent ten or twelve hours every day at his outdoor work, had yet been able out of his small earnings to buy bricks and other materials, and, assisted by his sons, to build a chapel adjoining his house.