I guess the gang is broken up--too much iron in its way." * * * * * Sarah enjoyed fixing up the cabin.

Jack Kelso had given her some deer and buffalo skins to lay on the floors.

The upper room, reached by a stick ladder, had its two beds, one of which Harry occupied.

The children slept below in a trundle bed that was pushed under the larger one when it was made up in the morning.
"Some time I'm going to put in a windletrap and get rid o' that stick ladder," Samson had said.
Sarah had all the arts of the New England home maker.

Under her hand the cabin, in color, atmosphere and general neatness, would have delighted a higher taste than was to be found on the prairies, save in the brain of Kelso who really had some acquaintance with beauty.