From all accounts this Mr.Merrick is a generous and free-hearted man, and I've discovered that strangers are not likely to be fearsome when you come to know them.

The unknown always makes us childishly nervous, you see, and then we forget it's wrong to borrow trouble." "True's gospil," said Old Hucks.

"To know my Nora is to love her.
Ev'body loves Nora.

An' the good Lord He's took'n care o' us so long, it seems like a sort o' sacrelidge to feel that all thet pretty furn'ture in the barn spells on'y poor-house to us.

Eh, Ethel ?" McNutt arrived just then, with big Ned Long, Lon Taft the carpenter, and Widow Clark, that lady having agreed to "help with the cleanin'." She didn't usually "work out," but was impelled to this task as much through curiosity to see the new furniture as from desire to secure the wages.
At once the crowd invaded the living room, and after a glance around Ethel ordered every bit of the furniture, with the exception of two antique but comfortable horse-hair sofas, carried away to the barn and stored in the loft.