When the berries were ripe he employed children to pick them, John Upham's among the rest.
He cleared quite a sum by this venture, and added it to his store.

In two years' time he had saved enough money for his mill, and early in the fall had the lumber all ready.

He had engaged one carpenter from Dale; he thought that he could build the mill himself with his help, and that of some extra hands for raising.
On the evening before the day on which he expected to begin work he went to see Adoniram Judd.

The Judds lived off the main road, in a field connected with it by a cart-path.

Their house, after the commonest village pattern--a long cottage with two windows on either side of the front door--stood closely backed up against a wood of pines and larches.