"Your trouble is you laugh when you ought to set your lips and get busy.

One has got to hustle in Canada." "I have hustled.

In fact, it's hustling that has brought me low.

If I hadn't spent my money trying to break fresh land, I wouldn't have been so deep in debt." "And you'd have had more time to loaf about the settlement ?" "On the whole, I don't think that's kind.

If I hadn't come to the settlement, I wouldn't have seen you, and that's about the only comfort I have left." A touch of color crept into Sadie's face, but her thoughtful look did not change.
"Well," she said, "I'd surely have liked you to make good, and don't know that we mightn't have got the mortgage held over; but it wouldn't have been much use.