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KEEPING OPEN HOUSE.
Our little four-room company-house in Sharon had its doors open to the wayfarer.

There was always some newcomer from Wales, looking for a stake in America, who had left his family in Wales.

Usually he was a distant kinsman, but whether a blood relation or not, we regarded all Welshmen as belonging to our clan.

Our house was small, but we crowded into the corners and made room for another.