The next morning it was much colder. It seemed that winter had come at last for it was snowing and the wind was blowing briskly. Silas again filled the big wood box while Hannah did the after-breakfast work. She noticed that some of the dishes on the upper shelves of the pantry were not very clean, so climbed up on a chair and carefully set them down on the work table below. Then she washed the shelves and rearranged the clean dishes. As she did it, she decided on several minor changes that would make things more handy than they now seemed to be. She made some pie crust and soon had an apple pie in the oven made from some of the apples Silas had brought from the cellar the night before. She was surprised and pleased to find the house so well stocked with staple foods of all kinds, and suspected that Silas' sister had helped him to select them. She found a ham shank and put it on to cook, then cleaned some beans to cook with it. She found so many little chores to do that it was lunchtime before she realized it, but she did remember her mother's oft-repeated advice to her children, "Keep busy, for idleness is the devil's own workshop." She did not wish to ever have room in their home for the devil, so she kept busy. It was very beautiful and it was hard to concentrate on her rug making as she and Silas sat before the big "Oak" heater and talked during the afternoon. Silas told her about his son and she asked why he did not bring him home, but Silas felt it would be better for Roaldo to stay with his aunt until their home life was fully adjusted. To this she made no objections but said she did not wish anyone to think she objected to having the boy, or have anyone think she did not know about him before their marriage. Silas was surprised at the wisdom and understanding she showed. She was so young, and seemed to know so much that she was a continual surprise to him, a wordly man of wide experience. "Hannah, where did you learn so much?" he asked her once, and she calmly answered, "In my father's house and in the word of God." Silas remembered that she read from her Bible each day and always said her prayers at bedtime. Once more he realized that he had really won a prize in his girl wife. Click here to continue to Chapter Thirteen Click here to return to My Strong Family....So Far
She made some pie crust and soon had an apple pie in the oven made from some of the apples Silas had brought from the cellar the night before.
She was surprised and pleased to find the house so well stocked with staple foods of all kinds, and suspected that Silas' sister had helped him to select them.
She found a ham shank and put it on to cook, then cleaned some beans to cook with it. She found so many little chores to do that it was lunchtime before she realized it, but she did remember her mother's oft-repeated advice to her children, "Keep busy, for idleness is the devil's own workshop." She did not wish to ever have room in their home for the devil, so she kept busy.
It was very beautiful and it was hard to concentrate on her rug making as she and Silas sat before the big "Oak" heater and talked during the afternoon.
Silas told her about his son and she asked why he did not bring him home, but Silas felt it would be better for Roaldo to stay with his aunt until their home life was fully adjusted. To this she made no objections but said she did not wish anyone to think she objected to having the boy, or have anyone think she did not know about him before their marriage.
Silas was surprised at the wisdom and understanding she showed. She was so young, and seemed to know so much that she was a continual surprise to him, a wordly man of wide experience.
"Hannah, where did you learn so much?" he asked her once, and she calmly answered, "In my father's house and in the word of God." Silas remembered that she read from her Bible each day and always said her prayers at bedtime. Once more he realized that he had really won a prize in his girl wife.
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