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The Log School-House on the Columbia

CHAPTER IX
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It is running water that freshens the earth.

Husband and I built our house with our own hands, and I made my garden with my own hands, and I have defended my property with my own hands against bears and Injuns, and have kept husband to work at the block-house to earn money for the day of trouble and helplessness that is sure some day to come to us all.

I raise my own garden-sass and all other sass.

I'm an honest woman, that's what I am, and have asked nothing in the world but what I have earned, and don't you dare to question my rights to anything I possess! I never had a dollar that I did not earn, and that honestly, and what is mine is mine." "Be careful, woman," said the hunter.

"It will not be yours very long unless you have a different temper and tongue.


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