of eggs out here at this season."

"Oh! Will the shells really settle it?
This is what you must call prairie lore.
I suppose out here we find out what the
real relations of invention and necessity
are -- eh?"

Jim laughed disproportionately. He
thought her wonderfully witty. And he
and the help ate so much that Annie
opened her eyes. She had thought there
would be enough left for supper. But
there was nothing left.

For the next two weeks Jim was able to be
much with her; and they amused themselves
by decorating the house with the bright
curtainings that Annie had brought, and
putting up shelves for a few pieces of china.
She had two or three pictures, also, which
had come from her room in her old home,
and some of those useless dainty things with
which some women like to litter the room.

"Most folks," Jim explained, "have to be
content with one fire, and sit in the kitchen;
but I thought, as this was our honeymoon,
we would put on some lugs."