on all his
errands. He was ardent and unreserved in expressing his love for
Fairbanks; and Fairbanks was free and fond in the good things he said
of Frisbie; and the people of Summerfield were very happy with such
valued acquisitions to their society; and enjoyed the pleasantest hours
whenever they numbered the merchant and clerk among their guests.

Promptly at the time agreed on, Frisbie came with the money to pay for
the delivered wheat-crop; paid the entire sum in Spanish milled
dollars; and spent an agreeable evening, discussing character, hearing
Fabens's history from before the time of his settlement there; and
giving incidents of his own life, and his adventures and experiences,
with Fairbanks.

It was a pleasant hour. This was the second winter they were enjoying
their new house, and the change and contrast could not be forgotten.
The new house stood on a gentle eminence, a quarter of a mile from the
road, and within a distant view of the lake, which was beautiful in
summer. There was a fine selection of all the forest trees that once
flourished on the farm, in front of the house, which had been
transplanted there twelve years before, in preparation of shade and
beauty for the dooryard; and though their verdant honors had been shed
in autumn, they reminded the hearts within of their guardian presence,
by the whisperings of love they blent with the winter blast.

The house was a high story and a half, and stood thirty-five by thirty
on the ground. It had a north room and south room, with bedrooms
attached; it had four chambers, two large and two small, above; and a
kitchen, a tea-room, and wood-house in the rear. It was painted white
without, with a coal-black border on the tops of the chimneys, and had
blinds of Paris green. It had white walls and oak-grained doors and
casings in the south room, and white walls, doors and casings in the
north room. The north room was Fanny's, and the spare bed was spread
with a blue and white carpet-coverlet, spun with her own hand, and
woven in Auburn prison; and it was hung with snow-white curtains, which
she spun and wove. She had a stove in the north room, and a fire-board
behind, covered with trees, watered with a silver lake, and stocked
with a herd of deer, three of which were drinking from the lake.

In the south room was another bed; and that was hung with checkered
curtains; and there was an ample fireplace; and that was the family
room. There sat the co