Never got over seven cents a pound for the best I ever sold, and it takes a heap of these little quills to make a pound when they are dry.

That's all of you----about twenty-five cents' worth.
But even that is better than doing nothing while I wait, and some one has to keep the doctors supplied with salicin and tannin, so, if I do, other folks needn't bother." He arose and poured more sap into the kettles as it boiled away and replenished the fire.

He nibbled a twig when he began on the spice brush.

As he sat on the piled wood, and bent over his work he was an attractive figure.

His face shone with health and was bright with anticipation.