By his process crude stock was thoroughly cured, yet did not lose in weight and colour as when dried in the sun or outdoor shade.
So the Harvester was enabled to send his customers big packages of brightly coloured raw material, and the few cents per pound he asked in advance of the catalogued prices were paid eagerly.

He lived alone, and never talked of his work; so none of the harvesters of the fields adjoining dreamed of the extent of his reaping.

The idea had been his own.

He had been born in the cabin in which he now lived.

His father and grandfather were old-time hunters of skins and game.