Professor, and shall always be reminded of you when I look at this copy of a great work." Mary would not go empty-handed to Ralph at her marriage.

Her "hope chest" in the attic was full to overflowing, and quite unique in itself, as it consisted of an old, in fact ancient, wooden dough-tray used in times past by Aunt Sarah's grandmother.

Beside it stood a sewing table, consisting of three discarded broom handles supporting a cheese-box cover, with wooden cheese-box underneath for holding Mary's sewing; stained brown and cretonne lined.

Mary valued it as the result of the combined labor of herself and Ralph Jackson.

A roll of new, home-made rag carpet, patchwork quilts and "New Colonial" rugs, jars of fruit, dried sweet corn, home-made soap, crocks of apple butter, jellies, jams and canned vegetables all bore evidence of Mary's busy Summer at the farm.
The day of Mary's marriage, the twelfth of October, dawned clear and bright, sunshine warm as a day in June.