I can make a beginning, and you can send me your black sheep to stock my place with.

I tried sheep-farming in Australia, and know something about black ones, any way.' A laugh chased away the sober look in Dan's face as he ended; and those who knew him best guessed that he had learned a lesson there in San Francisco, and dared not try again.
'That is a capital idea, Dan!' cried Mrs Jo, seeing great hope in this desire to fix himself somewhere and help others.

'We shall know where you are, and can go and see you, and not have half the world between us.
I'll send my Ted for a visit.

He's such a restless spirit, it would do him good.

With you he would be safe while he worked off his surplus energies and learned a wholesome business.' 'I'll use the "shubble and de hoe" like a good one, if I get a chance out there; but the Speranza mines sound rather jollier,' said Ted, examining the samples of ore Dan had brought for the Professor.
'You go and start a new town, and when we are ready to swarm we will come out and settle there.