14/18 They must have been used to pretty grand things where they came from. They want the stable enlarged, as I said before, and a box-stall. Mr.Carroll owns a famous trotter that he hasn't brought here yet, because he is afraid the stable isn't warm enough. I heard he wanted steam-heat out there, and a room finished for the coachman, and hard-wood floors all over the house. They say he has two five-thousand-dollar rugs." "The house is let furnished, I thought," said Mrs.Van Dorn. |