They have three sons and two daughters.

The two eldest of the young men are employed on the farm; the third is a sailor, and is making holiday-time of it just now at Appletreewick.

The daughters are pictures of health and freshness.

I have but one complaint to make against them--they are beginning to spoil the children already.
In this tranquil place, and among these genial, natural people, how happily my time might be passed, were it not for the saddening sight of William's affliction, and the wearing uncertainty of how we are to provide for future necessities! It is a hard thing for my husband and me, after having had the day made pleasant by kind words and friendly offices, to feel this one anxious thought always forcing itself on us at night: Shall we have the means of stopping in our new home in a month's time?
3d .-- A rainy day; the children difficult to manage; William miserably despondent.

Perhaps he influenced me, or perhaps I felt my little troubles with the children more than usual: but, however it was, I have not been so heavy-hearted since the day when my husband first put on the green shade.