...many years made at least weekly pilgrimages. Month by month and year by year the home made progress ; gradually the timber was cut away, the wild choke-cherry...all, to send the others to western New York or the far-off regions of Ohio and Michigan, where they could put in practice the lessons they had learned...

...their abundance. In the winter, the family foddered their cattle on the snows and diligently studied the three R's. In spring-time they made maple sugar and famous Vermont butter, built ston£ walls and cleared a patch or two of rye, getting ready in that way to send the oldest to college,...