The cabin was about fourteen feet square.

The family had crowded into one bed, part of the surveyors occupied the other, and the rest were on the floor.

We had not eaten a bite since morning.

The cooking stove was in a little, cold, floorless shed, and there mother baked some corn griddle-cakes for our supper.

The surveyors gave their bed to mother and me, and the men all crowded down on the floor--nineteen in one room.