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Polly's face beamed a welcome on the travellers. The fact that the little cabin contained but the living-room and the lean-to downstairs and the two little loft chambers above, did not disturb her in the least when the matter of accommodating five extra persons was to be considered. "Let me see," she said meditatively, "the two biggest lads can sleep in one o' the loft rooms, and Agnes can take Margret in with her; then the other two little ones an' my youngest can have the trundle-bed, and the father an' mother the big bed below, an' Jimmy an' mesel' with the others can go to the barn."
"Turn you out! I'd like to see us," said Agnes. "I can take both my sisters in with me, and the lads can go to the barn. They're well off to have no worse place, and they'll not mind it in the least. " And though Polly protested and brought Jimmy into the discussion, it was at last managed as Agnes had suggested.