I live west of them for five years.

I am now come east." "All the more, then, I envy you! You have perhaps seen the Oregon country?
That has always been my dream." My eye must have kindled at that, for he smiled at me.
"You are like all Americans.

They leave their own homes and make new governments, yess?
Those men in Oregon haf made a new government for themselfs, and they tax those English traders to pay for a government which iss American!" I studied him now closely.

If he had indeed lived so long in the Oregon settlements, he knew far more about certain things than I did.
"News travels slowly over so great a distance," said I."Of course I know nothing of these matters except that last year and the year before the missionaries have come east to ask us for more settlers to come out to Oregon.

I presume they want their churches filled." "But most their _farms!_" said the old man.
"You have been at Fort Vancouver ?" He nodded.