boy
was up to. Of course the water isn't for drinking purposes, for he has a
driven well out in the yard, and the water is very good; but still it is
not like that down at the spring."

She turned around and patting Jack on the shoulder said:

"Jack, were you thinking of your mother or of Katy when you were fixing
up all these comforts?"

"Of both, Miss Evelyn," he answered, "for mother is as fond of comforts
as any other woman. She does her own cooking, and I am having water
pipes run from the same source into our house."

"By and by," he continued, "I'm going to see if I can't find artesian
water somewhere on the premises, and have it running through the house
all the time."

"Good boy! Good boy!" laughed Evelyn. "Now, brother tells me that you
have pigs and chickens and milch-cows on the place, and I want to see
them at once."

Terry and Fred and Jack went out with her. They first went to the big
stable, saw the saddle and carriage horses that they had bought, and she
was pleased with their appearance.

"Evelyn, here are a pair of grays," said Fred, "which Terry and I say
belong to you and Mary, and we hope you will love them as much and train
them as you did those up at Fredonia."

"Oh, my. That is work for me, but I am glad of it. Have they good
dispositions?"

"Yes, the stable-man says that they are kind and gentle and very
susceptible to kind treatment."

From the big stable they emerged into the big barn lot, passed through a
gate in a division fence, and saw a big flock of chickens. There were
about one hundred of the little things, all like little balls of down,
following clucking mother hens all over the place.

Evelyn went into such expressions of delight at seeing a splendid flock
that made the boys smile.

"Haven't you any turkeys?" she asked.

"Not one," said Jack. "All the cowboys told me that the turkeys would go
off and find such an abundant supply of things to eat that they can't be
kept at home. But we have ducks and geese, which are kept over in
another lot."

"Then they passed through another gate, where Evelyn saw a row of
cow-sheds, and a half dozen splendid looking Jersey cows.

"Oh, my," she cried. "I never saw such fat, beautiful milch-cows in my
life."

Jack ran up to two of the cows and put his arms around their necks,
patted their faces and noses, and the mild-eyed beauties seemed to enjoy
the petting.

"Fred, where in the world did you and brother find Jersey cows