She positively would not consent to the pig's occupying the sty beneath the woodshed and adjoining the potato cellar, so a new pen was built in the hollow at the rear of the house.

Imogene was tremendously interested in the live-stock.

She begged the privilege of naming each animal and fowl.
Mrs.Barnes had been encouraging the girl to read literature more substantial than the "Fireside Companion" tales in which she had hitherto delighted, and had, as a beginning, lent her a volume of United States history, one of several discarded schoolbooks which Emily Howes sent at her cousin's request.

Imogene was immensely interested in the history.

She had just finished the Revolution and the effect of her reading was evident when she announced the names she had selected.
The horse, being the most important of all the livestock, she christened George Washington.