There were plenty of playfellows.

My father's energetic little partner had a little wife and a large family.

He kept them in the little cottage next to ours; and that the shanty survived the tumultuous presence of that brood is a wonder to me to-day.

The young Wilners included an assortment of boys, girls, and twins, of every possible variety of age, size, disposition, and sex.

They swarmed in and out of the cottage all day long, wearing the door-sill hollow, and trampling the ground to powder.