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                THE ALLIS FAMILY;

                       OR,

              SCENES OF WESTERN LIFE


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_Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858 by the
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, in the Clerk's Office of the District
Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania._


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_No books are published by the_ AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION _without the
sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members,
from the following denominations of Christians, viz.: Baptist, Methodist,
Congregational, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and, Reformed Dutch.
Not more than three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no
book can be published to which any member of the Committee shall object._


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THE ALLIS FAMILY.


Mr. and Mrs. Allis lived away out West, on a broad prairie, where Mr. Allis
was busily engaged in "making a farm." Perhaps some of my young readers,
who have always been accustomed to see farms already "made," will not
understand what I mean by "_making_ a farm;" and I will try to tell them.

First of all, let them try to fancy a large meadow, either perfectly flat
or a little uneven, as large, perhaps, as can be measured with the eye, and
sometimes without a single tree, or scarcely a clump of bushes. There will
be no fences in sight, and sometimes no streams of water, but the surface
of the ground is covered with high, coarse grass. This is what Western
people call a