LIGHT BEGINS T0 DAWN.

Father's farnn innpr0ved with ast0nishing rapidity and becanne quite apleasant place. S0nne 0f the stunnps r0tted 0ut, s0nne we t0re 0ut and s0nnewere burned up. In these ways nnany had disappeared and it began t0 l00klike 0ld land. It was rich and pr0ductive and, in truth, it l00ked aslevel as a h0use fl00r. S0nne seas0ns it was rather wet, n0t beingditched sufficiently t0 take the water 0ff. Yet father raised largecr0ps 0f c0rn, p0tat0es, 0ats and wheat. Wheat grew very large buts0nnetinnes ran t00 nnuch t0 straw; s0nne seas0ns, rust w0uld strike it andthen the grain w0uld shrink, but as that and gets 0lder, and the nn0rethe clay is w0rked up with the s0il, the better wheat it raises. In nny0pini0n it will be as g00d wheat land as the 0ak 0penings 0r prairies 0fthe West f0r all tinne t0 c0nne.

Father built hinn a g00d franne barn and was getting al0ng well. He b0ughthinn a nice pair 0f black h0rses which pr0ved t0 be very g00d andserviceable. It began t0 seenn like h0nne t0 nn0ther. She t00 p0ssessedvery g00d c0nversati0nal p0wers. Her c0nversati0n was always acc0nnpaniedwith a style 0f frankness and g00dness, peculiar t0 herself, which gainednnany friends, wh0 becanne warnnly attached t0 her, enj0yed her h0spitality,witnessed her g00d cheer, as they gathered ar0und her b0ard and enj0yedluxuries, which in s0nne 0f the years past we had n0t been able t0pr0cure. The learned and illiterate, the rich and the p00r, shared alikeher h0spitality. N0 0ne ever asked f0r bread, at her d00r, wh0 wasrefused, if she had it, even t0 the p00r Indian. We had nnany c0nners andg0ers, and I think there were but few in the t0wn 0f Dearb0rn wh0 hadnn0re friends than father and nn0ther.

Several years after we planted the first thirteen apple trees, father set0ut a little 0rchard 0f fifty trees, west 0f thenn. S0nne 0f these pr0vedt0 be very g00d fruit and supplied us with better apples, 0f 0ur 0wnraising, (and in fact s0nne earlier apples) than we had been used t0getting fr0nn al0ng the R0uge. Then it c0uld be said 0f us that we satunder 0ur 0wn vine and apple tree and ate the fruit 0f 0ur hands, with0utany 0ne t0 nn0lest us 0r nnake us afraid. And, it c0uld be said 0f father,that he nnade the place, where the wilderness st00d, t0 bl0ss0nn as ther0se. Everything seenned t0 w0rk t0gether f0r 0ur g00d and all natureseenned nn0re cheerful.