Liz Coates worked for Smith’s.

She liked it how much A. J. Smith and Mrs. Smith liked Jim.

He lived upstairs above the blacksmith shop and took his meals at A. J. Smith’s.

From Smith’s back door Liz could see ore barges way out in the lake going toward Boyne City.

He talked about the shop to A. J. Smith and about the Republican Party and about James G. Blaine.

Mrs. Smith, who was a very large clean woman, said Liz Coates was the neatest girl she’d ever seen.

From Smith’s back door you could look out across the woods that ran down to the lake and across the bay.

There was the general store and postoffice with a high false front and maybe a wagon hitched out in front, Smith’s house, Stroud’s house, Fox’s house, Horton’s house and Van Hoosen’s house.