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Updated: June 17, 2025
On midsummer evenings the windows of the old farmhouse over at Boyntons' gleam with unaccustomed lights and voices break the stillness, lessening the gloom of the long grass-grown lane of Lois Boynton's watching in days gone by.
Rodman had been until lately the only member of the family for whom she had a friendly feeling; but all that had changed in the last few weeks, when she had been allowed to take a hand in the Boyntons' affairs.
The two families removed to the new scene of their labours at the same time, and lived together in one log cabin, until they had erected a second dwelling. When this was done, the Garfields and the Boyntons settled down to reclaim the wilderness. They had to depend on each other for society, as their nearest neighbour lived seven miles away.
His brother-in-law's family removed there with him; and the whole strength of the two households was immediately employed in building a rough log hut for their common accommodation, where both the Garfields and the Boyntons lived together during the early days of their occupation.
"... There are two heavens... Both made of love, one, inconceivable Ev'n by the other, so divine it is; The other, far on this side of the stars, By men called home." And these two heavens met, over at Boyntons', during these cold, white, glistening December days. Lois Boynton found hers first. After a windy moonlit night a morning dawned in which a hush seemed to be on the earth.
The little feller, now, is smart's a whip, an' could talk the tail off a brass monkey." "Yes, but Rodman ain't no kin to the Boyntons," Abel reminded him. "He inhails from the other side o' the house." "That's so; well, Ivory does, for certain, an' takes after his mother, right enough, for she hain't spoken a dozen words in as many years, I guess.
Love lightens Ivory's afflictions but that is something you and I have to do without, so it seems." "I suppose little Rodman is some comfort to the Boyntons, even if he is only ten." Patty suggested. "No doubt.
A New England Village Hardships of Emigrants The Widow Ballou and her Daughter Eliza The Humble Dwelling of Abram Garfield The Garfields and the Boyntons The Removal to a New Home The Wonderful Baby-Boy. The early settlers from the Old World first peopled the eastern shores of the Atlantic, and founded the New England States, New York State, and the whole seaboard from Maine to Florida.
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