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Updated: June 29, 2025
The room was somewhat bare, for the shed-room outside was evidently the more used part of the house.
When she reached her little gray house under its big tree, she went first into the cow-barn a crumbling lean-to with a sagging roof to see if a sick dog which had found shelter there was comfortable. It seemed to Lizzie that his bleared eyes should be washed; and she did this before she went through her kitchen into a shed-room where she slept.
Daisy looked, and saw nothing but an inner door. Not liking to multiply questions, for fear of Molly's patience, she ventured to open the door. There was a sort of shed-room, where Daisy found stores of everything she wanted. Evidently the neighbours provided so far for the poor creature, who could not provide for herself. Kindling was there in plenty, and small wood stacked.
The family assembled for the evening in the shed-room. The women were silent, for the talk was confined to masculine topics, such as the quality of the placer claims up the river, the timber, the hunting, the progress and prospects of the new railroad. Tommy, keeping himself forcibly awake, was seeing two Kirkwoods where there was but one.
It had, properly speaking, only one room, but there was a shed-room attached, for the purpose of storage, and also a large open shed at one side. The rail fence inclosed the space of an acre, perhaps, which was covered with spent bark. Across the pits planks were laid, with heavy stones upon them to hold them in place.
He was playing cards with three others at the table when the man came in, and did not look up at the entrance. The woman, white and hopeless, appeared at the door of the shed-room when the man came, and obediently set about getting his supper; but her lifeless face never changed expression. "Brung a gal 'long of me part way," boasted the man, as he flung himself into a seat by the table.
It was embowelled in a glen of its own a mere cup of the slightly-rising hills, and so encircled by foliage that it needed a very near approach of the stranger before he became aware of its existence. The structure was very small, a sort of square box with a cap upon it, and consisted of two rooms only on a ground floor, with a little lean-to or shed-room in the rear, intended for a kitchen.
"Married two weeks and I don't care whether it rains or whether it pours or how long I have to stand outdoors if I can be with you, Kid." The old woman hesitated until Mary's smile melted its way into her heart. Her lips trembled, and her watery blue eyes blinked. "Well," she began grumblingly, "thar's a little single bed in that shed-room thar for you ef he'll sleep in here on the sofy."
She cast a discerning glance up among the strings of herbs and peppers hanging from above, and examined the shelves where the simple stores for table use were arranged in earthen-ware bowls or gourds all with an air of vague dissatisfaction. She presently stepped into the shed-room, and there looked over the piles of quilts.
Jim closed the door of the little shed-room with a bang, and stood listening a moment to the sobs inside. "`UNTIL DEATH DO US PART, Kiddo!" he laughed grimly. He turned back into the room and saw Nance standing at the opposite entrance between the calico curtains, an old, battered, flickering lantern in her hand.
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