If we refuse to tell her, others will." "Very well, then, so be it," the Sawyer replied; for he yielded more to his grandson than to the rest of the world put together.

"Turn the log up, Firm, and put the pan on.

You boys can go on without victuals all day, but an old man must feed regular.

And, bad as he was, I thank God for sending him on his way home with his belly full.

If ever he turneth up in the snow, that much can be proved to my account." Young as I was, and little practiced in the ways of settlers, I could not help perceiving that Uncle Sam was very much put out--not at the death of the man so sadly, as at the worry of his dying so in going from a hospitable house.