CHAPTER IV.
CALAMITY.
Both Mary Erskine and Anne Sophia went on very pleasantly and prosperously, each in her own way, for several years.

Every spring Albert cut down more trees, and made new openings and clearings.

He built barns and sheds about his house, and gradually accumulated quite a stock of animals.

With the money that he obtained by selling the grain and the grass seed which he raised upon his land, he bought oxen and sheep and cows.

These animals fed in his pastures in the summer, and in the winter he gave them hay from his barn.
Mary Erskine used to take the greatest pleasure in getting up early in the cold winter mornings, and going out with her husband to see him feed the animals.