You understand me, Edward, of course?" added Jacob.
Edward nodded his head; and Jacob telling the children that they might
now go out of the cottage and play, they all set off, quite delighted
with clothes which procured them their liberty.
We must now describe the cottage of Jacob Armitage, in which the
children have in future to dwell. As we said before, it contained a
large sitting-room, or kitchen, in which was a spacious hearth and
chimney, table, stools, cupboards, and dressers: the two bedrooms
which adjoined it were now appropriated, one for Jacob and the other
for the two boys; the third, or inner bedroom, was arranged for the
two girls, as being more retired and secure. But there were outhouses
belonging to it: a stall, in which White Billy, the pony, lived during
the winter; a shed and pigsty rudely constructed, with an inclosed
yard attached to them; and it had, moreover, a piece of ground of more
than an acre, well fenced in to keep out the deer and game, the
largest portion of which was cultivated as a garden and potato-ground,
and the other, which remained in grass, contained some fine old apple
and pear-trees. Such was the domicile; the pony, a few fowls, a sow
and two young pigs, and the dog Smoker, were the animals on the
establishment.
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