"Now, girls," said' Evelyn, "come over to the house with me and you'll see how we are roughing it out here." So she led the way from the store to the house which they called their home.
When they entered the two beautifully furnished rooms the girls uttered exclamations of surprise.
"Why, Evelyn," one of them exclaimed, "there isn't a prettier furnished house in all Crabtree. I can't see for the life of me why you call it roughing."
"Well, I call it roughing because we can do just as we please out here. There is nobody about to criticise us. I hope you brought some of your old clothes with you that won't be hurt by roughing it!"
"Yes, we brought some old dresses with us."
"All right, just as soon as your trunks come in put on your roughest suits and I'll show you how much fun we can have out here."
She then led them into the kitchen and dining-room.
One of the bedrooms had two beds in it, and all three of them would sleep in there, leaving Fred and Terry to have the other room.
A half hour later the girls' trunks were brought into the house and they proceeded at once to don what they called their home dresses.
Then Evelyn led them out to the poultry yard, to the cow-sheds and the dairy-house, Then they went to the big lot in which lived the sows and pigs. After that they visited the big stables, where Evelyn pointed with great pride to two big grays which the boys had bought for her, and there she told them the story of the grays she had owned before, how she had trained them so that she could drive them without bridles anywhere and guide them entirely by her voice.