You'll be back here before snow flies, with a few modern improvements put in, and all of you the better for the change.

Helen, go bring the family treasures from under that pine tree, and put them in the back of our car." "You know, Cousin Roxy," Kit exclaimed, "I thought the minute you showed up down here to-night you'd be the chief of the fire department." Cousin Roxy laughed heartily.
"Did you, child?
Well, I've always held that there are times and seasons when you ought to let the men-folks alone.

After you've lived a lifetime in these parts, you'll know that every boy born and bred around here is taught how to fight fire from the time he can tote a water bucket.

Did you save all the chickens, Shad ?" "Ain't lost even a guinea hen!" Shad assured her.

"The barn ain't touched, and so I'm going to sleep over the harness room and watch out for the stock." It was always a secret joy to the girls to hear the way Shad would roll out about the Greenacre "stock." "Just as if," Jean said, "we had all the cattle upon a thousand hills and racers and thoroughbreds into the bargain, instead of Bonnibel and Lady Bountiful, with Princess and the hens.