CHAPTER X.
DANNIE'S RENUNCIATION So they stretched Jimmy's length on Five Mile Hill beside the three babies that had lacked the "vital spark." Mary went to the Dolans for the winter and Dannie was left, sole occupant of Rainbow Bottom.
Because so much fruit and food that would freeze were stored there, he was even asked to live in Jimmy's cabin.
Dannie began the winter stolidly.

All day long and as far as he could find anything to do in the night, he worked.

He mended everything about both farms, rebuilt all the fences and as a never-failing resource, he cut wood.

He cut so much that he began to realize that it would get too dry and the burning of it would become extravagant, so he stopped that and began making some changes he had long contemplated.

During fur time he set his line of traps on his side of the river and on the other he religiously set Jimmy's.
But he divided the proceeds from the skins exactly in half, no matter whose traps caught them, and with Jimmy's share of the money he started a bank account for Mary.