Then the railway came; I saw the first train come in, garlanded and wreathed with flowers.

Now there are eight thousand people.

They have reserved land for a park along the river, and sent for a landscape gardener from England to lay it out; they have made trees grow on the prairie; they have built a high school and a concert hall; the municipality is full of ambitions; and all round the town, settlers are pouring in.

On market day you find yourself in a crowd of men, talking cattle and crops, the last thing in binders and threshers, as farmers do all over the world.
But yet you couldn't match that crowd in the old world." "Which you don't know," put in Elizabeth, with her sly smile.
"Which I don't know," repeated Anderson meekly.

"But I guess.