It looks as if the house were covered with a particularly gaudy piece of comfort calico.

Only fancy!" She laughed again and rode away.

Mother came in just gasping.
"Well, for all His mercies, large and small, the Lord be praised!" she cried piously, as she dropped into the big rocking chair.

"THAT is what I consider escaping by the skin of your teeth!" Then father and Laddie laughed, and said they thought so too.

When the blinds were up, the outside looked well, and you should have seen the inside! The woodwork was enamelled white, and the wall paper was striped in white and silver.