CHAPTER XIV.
SWISSVALE .-- AGE, 26, 27.
In April, 1842, my husband took possession of the old home in the valley, and we went there to live.

There were large possibilities in the old house, and we soon had a pleasant residence.

I had the furniture mother left me, and a small income from her estate.

The farm I named "Swissvale," and such is the name thereof.

When the Pennsylvania railroad was built it ran through it, but not in sight of the house, and the station was called for the homestead.
In the summer of '42 I began to write stories and rhymes, under the _nom de plume_ of "Jennie Deans," for _The Dollar Newspaper_ and _Neal's Saturday Gazette_, both of Philadelphia.