An old two-story farmhouse, with four plain rooms of generous dimensions on each floor, in which the first delighted summer party had divided itself, glad and grateful to occupy them double and even treble bedded, had become the "hotel," with a name up across the gable of the new wing,"Giant's Cairn House,"and the eight original rooms made into fourteen.

The farmhouse was a plain structure nearly forty years old, badly in need of paint, and the out-buildings harmonized with it in appearance.

The neighbouring farmhouse is a 16th cent.

Every farmhouse, however, was a little factory, and every farmer a jack-of-all-trades.

An old two-story farmhouse, with four plain rooms of generous dimensions on each floor, in which the first delighted summer party had divided itself, glad and grateful to occupy them double and even treble bedded, had become the "hotel," with a name up across the gable of the new wing,"Giant's Cairn House,"and the eight original rooms made into fourteen.

A German farmhouse was an oasis of plenty amid a very hungry army.