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[Frodsham L. <ca...@do...>]

I was back with mother forty times that night, if I did once. Then
come the worst of all, clutterin' everything right into that shanty;
for our frame-house wouldn't be done for two months, and

there wa'n't scarce room for what we'd brought,
so't we couldn't think of sendin' for what was stored to Cumberton. I
didn't sleep none for two nights, because of the
whip-poor-wills that set on a tree close by, and called till mornin'
light; but after that I was too tired to lie awake. Well, it was real
lonesome, but it was all new at first, and Russell was to work near
by, so't I could see him, and oftentimes hear him whistle; and I had
the garden to make, round to the new house, for I knew more about the
plantin' of it than he did, 'specially my posy-bed, and I had a good
time gettin'

new flowers out of the woods. And the woods was real splendid,--great
tall tulip-trees, as high as a steeple and round
as a quill, without any sort o' branches ever so

fur up, and the whole top full of the yeller tulips and the queer
snipped-lookin' shiny leaves, till they looked like great bow-pots on
sticks; then there's lots of other great trees, only they're all
mostly spindled up in them woods. But the flowers that
grow round on the ma'sh edges and in the clearin's do beat all.
So time passed along pretty
glib till the frame-house was done, and then we

had to move in, and to get the things from Cumberton, and begin to
feel
as though we were settled for good and all; and after the newness had
gone off, and t