Of course he was now thinking of the man who had just left him, whom he declared to himself to be an ignorant, prejudiced, ill-constituted cur.

"I believe in his heart he thinks that I'm going to set fire to his run," he said, almost aloud.

"And because he grows wool he thinks himself above every body in the colony.

He occupies thousands of acres, and employs three or four men.

I till about two hundred, and maintain thirty families.