We should be thankful that we have fared so well." "I think that most of us are," she replied.

"We'll soon be a big town." She glanced at the spreading settlement, and this launched Mr.
Pennypacker upon a favorite theme of his.

He liked to predict how the colony would grow, sowing new seed, and already he saw great cities to be.

He found a ready listener in Lucy.

This too appealed to her imagination at times, and if at other times interest was lacking, she was too fond of the old man to let him know it.