"Got a sittin'-room and a kitchen out there, and a little upstairs, where I sleep." Mrs.Armstrong seemed surprised.

"Why!" she exclaimed, "I thought you lived in that dear little old house next door here.

I was told that you owned it." Jed nodded.

"Yes, ma'am," he said, "I do own it, but I don't live in it.

I used to live there, but I ain't for quite a spell now." "I don't see how you could bear to give it up.