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This was laid aside for hay, and the hay in turn gave place to straw, which we raised the coming season. It proved to be a very wet time while tenting out, and we were favored with a shower nearly every day and night. Persons of inquiring minds may wonder how we managed, with our frail covering, to keep our goods and baby dry. For the information of such I would say, that our tent leaked very badly, and our clothing and bedding were often wet, but soon dried when the sun shone, and, fortunately for us, the finish on our furniture was water-proof. As for baby, when it rained too hard we put her under the wash-tub until the shower was over. My husband being expert in the use of tools, by industry and perseverance succeeded in getting up our house and finishing it so that we could move into it on the 25th of August, just three weeks from the time we arrived. It is true there was no chimney or chamber-floor in it; but we had a good shingle roof, a floor below, and a door made from hewed planks, which was quite an improvement on the cotton-covered house we vacated, and a better house than there was in the whole village of Marshall, as there were none there that could boast of a floor until my husband hewed the timber for that purpose. Our house was situated in a delightful hickory grove with beautiful surroundings. When I first beheld it the poetic spirit was stirred within me, and I was led to exclaim:
We have found a place in the green-wood shade, That Nature on purpose for us hath made.
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