We moved there at once and the telegraph was brought in, which enabled me to operate the division from the house when necessary.
Here a new life was opened to us.

There were country lanes and gardens in abundance.

Residences had from five to twenty acres of land about them.

The Homewood Estate was made up of many hundreds of acres, with beautiful woods and glens and a running brook.

We, too, had a garden and a considerable extent of ground around our house.