In the front yard were overgrown clusters of lilac and rose bushes and, behind the barn, was the stubble of a departed garden.
Thankful looked at all these.
"So that's it," she said.
"That's it," said Captain Obed.

"What do you think of it ?" "Humph! Well, there's enough of it, anyhow, as the little boy said about the spring medicine.

What do you think, Emily ?" Emily's answer was prompt and emphatic.
"I like it," she declared.

"It looks so different this morning.

Last night it seemed lonesome and pokey and horrid, but now it is almost inviting.