The experience was trying, but her stout heart faced it calmly.

In the Old World, her folks and father's folks had been rated as prosperous people.

They always had good food in the larder and meat on Sunday, which was more than many had.

They were the owners of feather beds, while many never slept on anything but straw.
True they could not raise the passage money to America until father came and earned it--that would have been riches in Wales.

Now we were in America hungry and penniless, and hard was the bed that we should lie on.
From Pittsburgh father had sent us railroad tickets, and these tickets were waiting for us at the railroad office.