Here was a small town consisting of a hotel, store, church, schoolhouse and blacksmith shop, and as it was getting cold and bad, uncle decided to go no farther now, and rented a room for himself and aunt, and found a place for me to lodge with Daniel Stevens' boy close by.

We got good stables for our horses.
I went to the district school here, and studied reading, spelling and Colburn's mental arithmetic, which I mastered.

It began very easy--"How many thumbs on your right hand ?" "How many on your left ?" "How many altogether ?" but it grew harder further on.
Uncle took employment at anything he could find to do.

Chopping was his principal occupation.

When the snow began to go off he looked around for a farm to rent for us and father to live on when he came, but he found none such as he needed.