Then they cut a hole in the upper floor and the stone chimney and fitted the pipe.

How keenly we watched the building of the fire! How quickly it roared and began to heat the room! When the Axtells had gone away Aunt Deel said: "It's grand! It is sartin--but I'm 'fraid we can't afford it--ayes I be!" "We can't afford to freeze any longer.

I made up my mind that we couldn't go through another winter as we have," was my uncle's answer.
"How much did it cost ?" she asked.
"Not much differ'nt from thirty-four dollars in sheep and grain," he answered.
Rodney Barnes stayed to supper and spent a part of the evening with us.
Like other settlers there, Mr.Barnes was a cheerful optimist.
Everything looked good to him until it turned out badly.

He stood over the stove with a stick of wood and made gestures with it as he told how he had come from Vermont with a team and a pair of oxen and some bedding and furniture and seven hundred dollars in money.

He flung the stick of wood into the box with a loud thump as he told how he had bought his farm of Benjamin Grimshaw at a price which doubled its value.