Don't you recollect how I used to tell you about him at Ashburn ?" "I should think you did," shaking hands cordially; "she used to talk about you all the time, so that I felt intimately acquainted with all the family.

Well, I call this first rate luck.

It's two years since I saw any one from home." "Home ?" "Well; the East, you know.

It all seems like home when you're out here.
And I mean any one that I know, of course.

People from the East come out all the while.