After eating he lay down to sleep on a lounge that stood along the front side of the bed.

She was rocking her baby in the middle of the cabin, when the Border Ruffians rode up to the house, and one of them, riding so close that his horse's head was inside of the door, leaned forward and looked around the cabin.

The door was at the foot of the bed, and it so happened that the lounge on which Mr.
Quiett lay was so close to the bed, and so low, that the edge of the bed just hid his body.

The Ruffian said not a word, but looked until he seemed satisfied that there was no one in the room but Mrs.Quiett, and then they both rode away.

She said that she could not speak, but felt as though she was frozen to her chair, for she was sure that, if they had seen Mr.Quiett, they would have shot him before her eyes.
Not until they were out of sight did she speak or stir.
Mr.Quiett and Mr.Ross went with father to Topeka, when the Free State Legislature and Convention met, July 4, 1856, of which father speaks in chapter XVI.