CHAPTER X.
THE BUILDING OF THE FENCE.
An ax, a maul, a yoke of oxen; these are the great requisites for him who would build a rail fence through a forest.

Grant Harlson made the bargain for the work, hired a yoke of oxen, as you may do in the country, and secured the right to eat plain food three times a day at the cabin of a laborer.

A bed he could not have, but the right to sleep in a barn back in the field, and there also to house his oxen for the night, was given him.

He slept upon the hay-mow.

He went into the forest and began his work.