The women sent in quilts and tablecloths and towels, and one man made a chest for her, and another a table and so on.

Even blind old Aunt Margaret Boyd wove a little basket for her out of the sweet-scented sand-hill grass.

The schoolmaster's wife used it for years to keep her handkerchiefs in.
"Well, at last everything was ready--even to the logs in the big fireplace ready for lighting.

'Twasn't exactly THIS fireplace, though 'twas in the same place.

Miss Elizabeth had this put in when she made the house over fifteen years ago.