Like enough they got through.

I want to see the country before it gets too late for a good chance, Molly.

First thing you know buffalo'll be getting scarce out West, too, like deer was getting scarcer on the Sangamon.

We ought to give our children as good a chance as we had ourselves." "As good a chance! Haven't they had as good a chance as we ever had?
Didn't our land more'n thribble, from a dollar and a quarter?
It may thribble again, time they're old as we are now." "That's a long time to wait." "It's a long time to live a life-time, but everybody's got to live it." She stood, looking at him.
"Look at all the good land right in here! Here we got walnut and hickory and oak--worlds of it.

We got sassafras and pawpaw and hazel brush.