It beats the dickens how these States folks, that lives in cities, is always tryin' to imertate some other way of livin'.

Why didn't they build it out of boards?
They've got a saw-mill, blame 'em, and they're cuttin' off all the timber in these mountings; but they got to have logs to build their house with.

Folks that builds real log houses, and not toys, does it because they ain't got no boards.

But these States folks always was singerler." By this time Tom Osby was unhitching and feeding his team, and throwing out the blanket rolls upon the ground.

"Go easy on the 'Annie Laurie' machine there," called out Dan Anderson, hearing a suspicious rattling of brass against the wagon box.