In each was a bed and bedstead and smaller beds on the floor.

In case there were a number of adult guests the bedstead was screened with sheets hung upon strings.

In one of these rooms the travelers had a night of refreshing sleep.
After riding two days with the Doctor, Samson bought the claim of one Isaac Gollaher to a half section of land a little more than a mile from the western end of the village.

He chose a site for his house on the edge of an open prairie.
"Now we'll go over and see Abe," said Dr.Allen, after the deal was made.
"He's the best man with an axe and a saw in this part of the country.

He clerks for Mr.Offut.Abe Lincoln is one of the best fellows that ever lived--a rough diamond just out of the great mine of the West, that only needs to be cut and polished." Denton Offut's store was a small log structure about twenty by twenty which stood near the brow of the hill east of Rutledge's Tavern.