[CLOVERNOOK]
| group | cottage | repeating | sugar |
| hymns | daughter | sweetbrier | cellar |
| merry | gathered | old-fashioned | saucer |
One summer morning, a merry group of children was helping to make hay in one of the Clovernook hay fields.
Not far away stood a little brown house in the cool shade of cherry trees and apple trees. A sweetbrier clambered over the windows, and in the dooryard grew bushes of large red roses.
Near the house was a deep well of clear, cold water. An old-fashioned well sweep was used to draw up the water, as you see in the picture.
This was the Clovernook home. Here lived the merry children who were helping in the hayfield, and there were nine of them. What if the house was small? There was the barn in which they could play, and there were the fields and woods in which they could wander.