Where one owned only a few servants with no families they lived in the big houseotherwise in Slave quarters, little cabins nearby.

" No time was lost in getting the debris of the cabin outside, and by the time darkness had fallen a mass of balsam boughs had been spread upon the log floor just inside the door, blankets were out, packs and supplies stowed away in one corner, and everything "comfortable and shipshape," as Rod expressed it.