"How many rooms in the shebang?" questioned Tom.
"Let me think; there's a sitting-room, a bedroom, a dining-room, and a kitchen downstairs. I think Mr. Hodgkins said there were three rooms upstairs, didn't he, Sally?"
"Yes, three rooms, and kind of an attic over the kitchen. Oh, what will the Mulvaneys think? They have only two little rooms and a place above for the children to sleep, where they live, and the children were never in a decent house in their lives. They are not used to furniture, let me tell you. They didn't own but one real bed."
The first donation was a what-not, given by Mrs. George Saunders.
"That thing'll be a comfort," commented Tom.
"It'll help fix up the sitting-room," commented Cornelia Mary.
"What's it for?" asked Sally.
"To stand in the corner," was the reply. "You're supposed to put pretty things on the shelves."
"Hope nobody'll give us another," faltered Sally.
Deacon Trowbridge happened to be thinking of buying new furniture. He was glad to help load his old lounge, two arm-chairs, and a marble-topped table upon the lumber wagon.