"Our horses were worn out, and the stock had all scattered when he turned up with the trooper." "I believe he enjoyed the ride, and the night in the rain," replied Flora.

"You see, he had once to work very hard here, and now that things have changed, he finds it rather tame.

He likes to feel he's still capable of a little exertion." "I shouldn't consider him an idle man." Flora laughed.
"That would be very wrong; but the need for continual effort and the strain of making ends meet, with the chance of being ruined by a frozen crop, have passed.

I believe he misses the excitement of it." "Then I gather that he built up this great farm ?" "Yes; from a free quarter-section.

He and my mother started in a two-roomed shack.