We were welcomed by a lady with a most sweet, benignant countenance, and by her companion, some years younger.

The first was Mrs.Morrison--the other, Miss Elizabeth Dodge, daughter of General Dodge.
My husband laid me upon a small bed, in the room where the ladies had been sitting at work.

They took off my bonnet and riding-dress, chafed my hands, and prepared me some warm wine and water, by which I was soon revived.

A half-hour's repose so refreshed me that I was able to converse with the ladies, and to relieve my husband's mind of all anxiety on my account.

Tea was announced soon after, and we repaired to an adjoining building, for Morrison's, like the establishment of all settlers of that period, consisted of a group of detached log houses or _cabins_, each containing one or at most two apartments.
The table groaned with good cheer, and brought to mind some that I had seen among the old-fashioned Dutch residents on the banks of the Hudson.
I had recovered my spirits, and we were quite a cheerful party.