Here you received the blessings of home in the married life, and the care of offspring.

There were thus no defrauded women--called, by a cruel irony, "old maids"; no isolated, mistaken men, cheated out of themselves, and robbed of the best training possible for man.

This vital fact was fraught with every good.
On the young birds leaving the parent nest, they only exchanged it for one near at hand--land for the taking; a house to be built, a wife to be got--a share of the stock, some tools and simple furniture, and the outfit was complete.

The youngest son remained at home to care for the old father and mother, and to him came the homestead when they were laid away.

The conditions were all faithful, home life dear indeed.
To the Hunters accepting their fall in the chase no wilder thought could scarce be broached than that of solicitude as to the future of their young.