The ambitious gues

One December night a long, long time ago a family sat around the fireplace in their home. Golden light from the fire filled the room. The mother and father laughed at something their oldest daughter had just said. The girl was seventeen, much older than her little brother and sister who were only five and six Years old. A very old woman the family grandmother, sat knitting in the warmest corner of the room. And a baby, the youngest child, smiled at the fire light from its tiny bed.This family had found happiness in the worst place in all of New England. They had built their home high up in the white mountains, where the wind blows violently all year long

The family lived in an unusually cold and dangerous spot. Stones from the top of the mountain above their home would often roll down the mountainside and wake them in the middle of the night. No other family lived near them on the mountain. But this family was never lonely. They enjoyed each other's company and often had visitors.