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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Almost thou persuadest me to become a farmer," said Kate, as we left the porch, where I had been admiring my land while I lectured on the advantages of husbandry. Polly came out of the rose garden, where she had been examining her flowers and setting her watch, and said: "Kate, you and the grand-girls must stay this month out, anyway. It seems an age since we saw you last."
Laura sometimes went away she called it "going home," but we scoffed the term and the doldrums blew until she returned. Sir Tom dined with us nearly every evening through the fall and early winter; and when he, and Kate and Tom and the grand-girls, and the Kyrles, and Laura were at Four Oaks, there was little to be desired.
The pet pig is still a favorite with the grand-girls, but it always runs away in the fall. Kate loved to come to Four Oaks, and she spent so much time there that she often said: "We have no right to that $1200; we spend four times as much time here as you all do in town."
Tom, Kate, and the grand-girls were with us to spend the holidays, and so, too, was the lady whom we call Laura. I shall not try to say much about Laura. She was a somewhat recent friend. How we ever came to know her well, was half a mystery; and how we ever got on before we knew her well, was a whole one.
This stove would keep fire all night, and, while not up to latter-day demands, it was quite satisfactory to the warm-blooded boys who used it. The expense of overhauling the cottage was $214. Tom, Kate, and the grand-girls were to be with us, of course, and so were the Kyrles, Sir Tom, Jessie Gordon, Florence, Madeline, and Alice Chase.
The grand-girls were nearly five and seven now, and they were a great help to the Headman. My terrier was no closer to my heels from morning to night than were these youngsters. They took to country life like the young animals they were, and made friends with all, from Thompson down.
My grand-girls never lose their interest in it, and it has been photographed and sketched more times than there are fingers and toes on the sheep. The expenditure for equipment, from separator to sheep, was $354. I bought six butter-carriers with ice compartments for $3.75 each, $23 in all, and arranged with the express company to deliver my packages to the grocer for thirty cents each.
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