"What would dad say if he knowed where I was, right out here in the wilderness?
It looks as we might be the only human critters in the world.

There ain't no house in sight, nor any signs of man's ever bein' here." "So we can fancy how Adam felt when he was set down in Paradise," said Joe.
"I guess he felt kinder lonely." "Probably he did, till Eve came.

He had Eve, and I have you for company." "I guess Eve wasn't much like me," said Joshua, with a grin.
He was lying at full length on the greensward, looking awkward and ungainly enough, but his countenance, homely as it was, looked honest and trustworthy, and Joe preferred his company to that of many possessed of more outward polish.

He could not help smiling at Mr.
Bickford's remark.
"Probably Eve was not as robust as you are," he replied, "I doubt if she were as tall, either.

But as to loneliness, it is better to be lonely than to have some company." "There ain't no suspicious characters round, are there ?" inquired Joshua anxiously.
"We are liable to meet them--men who have been unsuccessful at the mines and who have become desperate in consequence, and others who came out here to prey upon others.