I see what it does to other men; it would be presumption to reckon myself stronger.

So I live alone.

As for money, I've watched the cross cuts and the quick and easy ways to accumulate it; but I've had something in me that held me to the slow, sure, clean work of my own hands, and it's yielded me enough for one, for two even, in a reasonable degree.

So I've worked, read, compounded, and carved.

If I couldn't wear myself down enough to sleep by any other method, I went into the lake, and swam across and back; and that is guaranteed to put any man to rest, clean and unashamed." "Six years," said the Girl softly, as she studied him.