| Show rea 14 VV k trim en I 1 id W 1 or me cow myo fer MC belled ted tie ile 1 l 5 tran Hae the ihrl bo accepted the at E alth re sig nution its it had been d that th ey stay in regina I 1 u did our prospecting dlhy at ace t about to end cheour i rt or couple pia ot of room rooms whery uld keep bouse house they insisted tej they were quite able to shift ifor for dr they would leave word tit mew location at the botel t I 1 was well gone by the bad blabe our arrangements night our oar grub which consisted ot of canned goods and other 41 tons that would not spoil la in beat the democrat was as a two jjr and the tent wd ind aup up vre bundled on behind ot or laid we noted that daxe n I 1 botto bottom rj fee i a rifle to the equipment then off jack in the rodt front beat seat tte the driver and I 1 alone behind aute g the flay day we discovered that rolde vas was something eom ething ot of a a ti bad many shrewd remark ile about immigrant immigrants and home and the business ot of settling suntry L it appeared that tha ithe be had ry regular for or his services i an came out in hia his account of the 11 ot of young englishmen whom bed as spoof bi till had a carload of baggs badgere bag gere e said bald 4 wibb western ot of atia S aad and when I 1 that up a second hand clothing n be said aid ah rin afraid youre in me me so I 1 him mr ciol t IB an be cete gets niall mail cow now addressed tty way ih 0 turned in to a farm aiace p ace in for or water we could tho fasmer seedie in tit ble his field be ii to top stop on our account Cco and if it be he s wife ife she he remained indoors we aped ped as 11 much water as the horses lid d drink and filled our water keg lea B sat for a while in the hade shade cne a of hie his buildings chewing at and abing into the blank dia dis there was a supreme satis fac 0 a lao relaxation and relief in n a g la in such uan aa ea hour I 1 waa was im m wed ed with the 0 t f hand way ay in which i kaniu to have pave taken thi the tun vall if e farm and his cori complete pleta treble to our presence ke k pilled pulled his tea deain in out from the aide side i bal bettack bt tack stack where they may had hadi been ln 9 with as little concern as a tt if the f were re their and presently v ed oft down the trail trull again a of our afternoon rest droe drove until almont sundown eun down we if BOW to a slightly rolling country i TOd denly lie swung from the trall 1 pulled up on the tup of a little from this little point coula could eee see the unbroken sweep of prairie miles and talles la to every buon on I 1 thit the bald bead edri I 1 asked la tu low mice as though touching on buila almost sacred Ms is the bald beada headed be he an paret wl see everywhere 1 graal sky an da geasa ah we trel theres an exception I 1 fol ed tb line of hia his extended arm JW bross cros the plain plains I 1 aar aj flushing mu t Is of a heliograph t S i it 4 j 4 th window aindow of a settlers sott lers shanty biles miles from rora here if it ife a foot 1004 look 1 bow yeen die Is the eveald U ht makes it MY 1 etwas ft ag true the had taken a wm bade de of ot green with the light 01 n want across it the sun un hung I 1 I 1 yellow w ball in a eky sky of cham them WH O 0 and the long shadows ct our 1 wagon ti reached down the pe of the hill but moat most lin e of all was the silence aal 13 of hearen and earth brood bro tex rading a ever thie this ax ey had done from the dawn ct of time 10 L and before tb 1 na I 1 far into to the bragas di of eterei ty idies at una lea might mum bron been them W aug camp or qa nul but if it ale a be eald said to bay a made mads MV way C et at ills found a little aro ctr 1 lw slew of now not far at ind he how ia 4 holved them I 1 bufe Ws a I 1 with the tent when lie be we evou I 1 deed need that eon son and I 1 ought artle ther ere ewas wll a dot not alot of al at in hla his voce voice that made me we am n to the e manit rain knitht fan ton ario 1 01 1 P bea clean out the you 0 two boy boys steel bleep on the we f of IL a reu get 61 the benefit V tho the rona UZL tbt t way aa W 4 iva dern ibe the ua tut ah where will you leear sleeda allmer III r roll op up I 1 rm r asks U aber ome some dry grass and 01 tt 1 1 11 chips p and af en an alft jah tol tifa 1111 fir a be eoon soon had the tea then 1 nen be he i fried tried bacon and laid md strips pa ot of hot t baj labs slabs ot of a ir iahn then and w we 8 ate I 1 ficon and d bread 11 01 t black u jim and find bread and drank ittel tim ed tea ten while ba tho law stew twilight about f iua na as S daylight ill bread livasy CIA 00 ma the uy was mod ii the h same as a the ono on before except that we were now well out en on the bald headed beaded on onra ona a in it a R while at great distances we could see a homesteader homestead ees aback a little isolated sentinel box of the vanguard of settlement once we were intercepted by another team and bud democrat much like our own which cut across our trail troll the driver asked if we could spare any water we gave him blin half of 0 what was in our keg and he ex tended his plo plu of 0 chewing tobacco all found wie W chattia 11 few minutes and then waa mutual friendly shouts and waving of our oar arms we were off again we that night by a stream c which jake knew know became there was little water on the prairies eren at the first of mai next day we drove all day and later late into the evening than usual it t waa was quite dark when we topped stopped thia this la in the place jake take bald said but you cant see it tonight have a good leep sleep and we well 11 size ler cr up in the morain we tried to eat cat breakfast brenk fast without po cero but we were hurtled ana arid nervous and eager to see how our judgment would tally with jake a oat the road jie be bad had tried to explain to as ux the system of survey and we had ft it general idea of it in our bead beads ny now he be took a township map from hie his po ket and showed us tn in detail where wo wera were thin Is os us he aid bald pointing rotating with a Is thick stubby finger right on the northwest quarter 0 6 fourteen teen lea im west of us Is a road nl el lowance north an south I 1 west of that again ts Is section fifteen which Is railroad land an cant be took up free but north west corkerin cora corn erin erfa right against this th quarter copt fer ter th i road allowance Is tj the southeast quarter of twenty two which Is open now these two quarters northa northwest eat fourteen an it southeast tient two li it as good as any land that laas la out 0 doors an better than most a a bit of a cullip a here see it in a minute runs down from the northeast an cuts off to the southwest an runs light between these two quarters there a springs in the gully somewhere an water practical the scar round en an shelter ter er stock an au all that kind 0 thin thing an you get the benefit of it all an it ilon dont t take two acres oarn your dour land its a plumb fara diso an you cant beat it nowhere how tar far Is it to a railroad I 1 jack asked plumb down that road allowance thirty two miles straight as the crow files when it aint sitt Lie be he threw tn in with a little snicker thirty two miles I 1 jack exclaimed pretty well in the nt wilderness not nothing hint this Is ban pro pIrty this la Is close in I 1 take some of am back sixty an seventy aw an eighty miles thirty two mile miles Is jus jual right an I 1 H tell you why when new ew railroad comes cornea its likely to come about thirty miles milet from the other about a sensible distance apart spart an AW here you are tire in the middle of the right of way an on may way be cuttin your homestead into town lots ten en lot lots to an acre am on two tyro hundred dollars dollar R lot can you be bent beit it it the lord sure has bas been good to you fer ter no special u that I 1 can emit notice valant loar good looka look an taint t out our bod sense ex cep in me as your financial x to speak I 1 reckon its ts all account W 0 those girls sister you said aldr ditke threw a querying stress on the word sisters si but it was wa against all nature to be offended at him had V 0 resented his remark be would d hare have laughed our seriousness oat out of court bo mr we decided to see se some ot of the adjoining sections sixteen appealed to jack ack we could have taken the west half and so working together we would bays bad a mile furrow turro vr the fully gully alsa 1 touched sixteen sirteen and would bays given 1 us the same advantages as jk jake claimed for the sections be he had becom Ilo however wever we found him very fixed la in bis his preference tor for fourteen and twenty two and finally we accepted bis his argument gu Cu ment ments and set out to make a more mor det detailed elied surrey of the land the gully angled between tha the two quarters tak ing scarce an in acre off either of them M A jolly tream stream brown with the grass gross of if its bank gurgled aloag aing its bed I 1 knelt down to try the water there was wa the snoot bet out there was the hader hu ctr sharper note of pring spring water mini led with it it Itu anin rater vater like that Is worta a thousand dollar on oil any farm 10 jake declared an ate come up this way walt valt till I 1 show yon you som some ethla thill the something to ba b a ja the valley where was a 5 considerable gro ath of small willows tn P aard are and poplars AT 1 milbia wa 1 said is As va e sold fer iad wowe have era em all pt cut down before th 2 amer thousand li aluma 1 thought of he the great pipe pline back backlu OB the old farm am in on tarle and arid tha the tuni tun ber her looked to me like eua cida and ewtuch ewt ev rIehL none smie of it nai aug tall enough eno ti to ireae oat out of hie tim little lulley and show a green up lip to attic bald eustace qa of 01 pr Allies hut but ne me were nere bot in irk Ont ontario arloo naw a aera u ere la in ft a land boere een a three inch linh tree jas as nat to be despised an lefrie sora some ethin mor he said sold setting betting an rn example for us by walking stealthily on his hi pudgy less legs through the of 0 willows at the other vil ald 1 0 of the wooded pace space we found a little pond opening out and a score store ot of wild mid ducks drons lna placidly on if its h surface eur tace ao an englishman jake remarked adien lien we had turned back would take thie this farm fer ter the duk pond alone the dang damnedest dan edest dest people ever wa was fer ter to kill eo methin lie ile don care if his fits farm la Is all sand or wallop a a long as there theres to hoot shoot the dont but fer ter a yankee it mus roils be wery ewery e acre wheat land lie he don t care fer ter bothin but the long green jake paused a as though to think over these character letice lets let s fial a badger ade he con linued and we e had little lo 10 L o lie la 11 locating lo enting one now low look at thi this thi lole hole goes down dou flie six seven ft maybe more in the ground look toot hat bis his niba nibs has kicked out pine me loamy sandy soil not too light an not too sticky all the way down that goes plumb to kingden kIng din come cours course the top Is a little hide darker on account 0 d the roots but it a all soll boll none 6 0 yer down east three inches ol 01 0 muck on an a rock bottom to that jake took a fresh chew of tobacco and looked out over tha the greenish brown prairie 1 11 I hae lime it out like this be went on au my eggers Is right this land ie Is worth more than any gold mine between hell bell in an when you take the gold out 0 a mine you aint aln got bothen left but you caa can take old out 0 tills this mine cert text year an the year after en an the year after fer er ever elver an ever an aw theres still as much there as a when you started start edIt if you fam farm it U richt right our inspection satisfied u us in ever particular jake explained a a we already knew that we would b have aye to build separate checks oa on the two i to comply with the law about sleeping bleeping on the land claimed bat but you can build one stable in the gully ter er the live stock he lie added the government doa dm care where jux gos the homesteader hh el Is 1111 V we ive amile dover over bit regulation regulations AS we kaew T er ere 4 to 0 o preveat q e who wale lankering lan lau ot of the arft isas bj by people 4 ho lied oo 00 pt 91 thine OB on I 1 f libin pin now w e bitter pick a second an a alliard elrd choice jus jule in case slips raa alaid 0 UK us on this bald aid jale end ire tre bant the afternoon dolvil cout and a akong fresh locations much bloch to 0 ithe he tend land wan wes already taken takers up jake jold old us u and although ther there were as yet no signs of sett settlement lewent we would see ee a treat reat change by fall we camped hajou lh at night flight end and jack jacl and 1 I weri filled isled plan plans to tor r our and our stable tb hack lacks be up lap on the prattle level fen on opposite tides of 0 the cully gully la in full view of each ather had about a hundred ards arils apart the stable would be in the sully gully close tt the road al Id sheltered fit aa u the wind and to unter the cro cros fi inc alne of the stream wai was hamabe ra mabe bu but would tend stand improvement early in the morales morning we started back and after three full day in the denio erat crat we found ourselves one evening aa swinging swing lne up the now strangely 1 familiar streets of 0 regina the raw prairie r r city of already almost seemed like 1 home we were ilka like travelers returning from strange lands to seats of old recollection recollections we hod had been a away just seven days but in that time tinia we had swung far out into the universe verge me ue lind drunk of the air of gods new creation we had lied been strangely conscious cone clous of the company of our nila souls in the morning wes w vent went with jake to tl it e land I 1 fourteen teen and awen ti two in the to tow pAblp where we had decided to locate were still open and we had bad no he difficulty in filing our claims we returned to the stable with jake the damage jack de la anaed uke expectorated profusely spread bis his feet and scratched hie his head times seven la Is forty nine ulna fifty dollars for ter to catin biake ninety nine I 1 cuca hes ninety nine boys 1 gosh daia data 14 it we might have made it a hun bun dail U paid him the ninety nino pine and jack threw it IL another well lunke it nu even hundred he noa aid come out and see us when you get a chance we roay may have hays a bite ot aided coyote tr fr ou 04 on oa I 1 ii ti be along all b be bo o along mid jake aue bow out there oten ea we kte istook baags with jako jake and turned away with 9 strange feeling of cutting ourselves drift we bad not gobi know how quickly Ii a an atta fa d i i CHAPTER IV if we w we e lied jale it was e I 1 dence that we still lburn to i 1 A about gur ur guides ip ildea bui bast riesa qualities J 21 ile bid hd aa n peculiarly we his own ou and anti that he h jairet bleat aten ning ining into bar our presence as a we mat at to in the bare lounge room of tup cinc a leht of a on ka the black of an envelope 11 1 I ben you ald fellows all over bellan bellantone bel langone golle 1 ho he a pro fuse tw to speece 1 I bot got a 3 fletus 9 luch luck fer far tt a chap lown down at the 0 d irrig rind ar othar wanta wants to fell pell hie his horses as a team 0 baya bays ca ever r i witched 11 tall in ilk an I 1 ge an put you next thata good of you enid said jack lack bat but avav I 1 juat puked odule horae its it a case of horses and no cow or oxen and a cow end and the tote vote at the moment stands unanimous for hilik to our porridge lee even at the risk of our characters they tell us that e even on a good man swears when be craves oxen that wrong lake corrected A goodenon goo denan dinan don drive a way a be food good before he drives them thern but not while br he drives them nor afterward its we agin human nature ive seen profanity on some W the ox trail |
