FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS.
[CHAPTER I.]
MY COTTAGE HOME.
UP to the age of fourteen I think I spent as happy a life as any child in any cottage home in England. There is many a cottage which is no "home" at all, in the true sense of the word, notwithstanding those pretty words of poetry about—
"The cottage homes of England,
By thousands in her plains;"
but ours was one.