You combine business with pleasure and have your wildcat bounty to pay expenses as you go along--or else keep it for pin-money," and Growler laughed good-humoredly at his own fun.
"You're the parson from St.Thomas, I judge," said Cheery.
The gentleman bowed, and said he was the pastor of that little church.
"I've heard of your mission work, and I understand you've done a great deal of good among the mountain whites." "How many churches have you in these mountains ?" interrupted Growler.
"I have but the one church organization, for outside through the mountains there are no churches--no buildings, no organizations.
People ten and fifteen miles apart can't very well have churches.

I visit the families.

I have three on this mountain side.

I am well repaid for all the sacrifice of comfort I make, in knowing how glad they are to have me come.

To many of them I am the connecting link with the rest of mankind.