. Ruth of Boston; a story of the Massachusetts Bay colony . and fish, quite coarse as compared with whatwe would have had at home in England, save as to thevenison pie, it all seemed sweet and wholesome to him. When the day was come to an end, we went into theship once more, for there were not spare beds enoughin all the town to serve for half our party, and you maybe very certain that once we were gathered again in thegreat cabin, all talked eagerly concerning what hadbeen done; at least our parents did, for it would havebeen unseemly in us children to interrupt while ourelders were talking.
. Ruth of Boston; a story of the Massachusetts Bay colony . and fish, quite coarse as compared with whatwe would have had at home in England, save as to thevenison pie, it all seemed sweet and wholesome to him. When the day was come to an end, we went into theship once more, for there were not spare beds enoughin all the town to serve for half our party, and you maybe very certain that once we were gathered again in thegreat cabin, all talked eagerly concerning what hadbeen done; at least our parents did, for it would havebeen unseemly in us children to interrupt while ourelders were talking. Mother was not well satisfied with the houses, be-lieving it would be possible to make dwellings morelike those we left behind; but father bade her have 26 RUTH OF BOSTOX patience, saying that a shelter from the weather wasthe first matter to be thought of, and that the pleasingof the eye could well come later, after we had morewith which to work. She, thinking as was I at the moment, of the floor inthe house where we^te the venison pie, declared stoutly. V that there would be no more of labor in laying downplanks, at least in the living-room, than in beatingthe earth hard, as it seemingly had been where wevisited. Then, laughingly, he bade her rest content, nor sether mind so strongly upon the vanities of this world,saying that if God permitted him to raise a roof, sothat his wife and child might be sheltered from the sun AN INDIAN GUEST AND OTHER VISITORS 27 and from the rain, he would be satisfied, even thoughthe legs of his table stood upon the bare earth. It was this conversation between my parents thatcaused the other women to talk of how they would havea home built, until Lady Arabella put an end to whatwas almost wrangling,---for each insisted that her plan*for a dwelling in this New World was the best,—bysaying that whatsoever God willed we should have,and that it would be more than we deserved. AX INDIAN GUEST AND OTHER VISITORS Both Susan and I had gazed about us e
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