So it was with food and shelter in the Welsh colony at Sharon.

Each newcomer from the Old Country was entitled to free bed and board until he could get a job in the mills.

When he found a job his money was his; we never expected him to pay for the food he had eaten any more than you would expect pay for the tobacco and matches you furnish your friends.
These sojourners in our family were heroes to us kids.

They brought us news from the Old World, and each one had tricks or tales that were new to us.

One man showed us that we could put our hand on the bottom of a boiling teakettle and find the bottom cool.