When you referred to the ford, I could scarcely keep my face straight; and my feeling ill this afternoon, though partly true, was also partly manufactured, because I didn't want to go to those old ruins with him.

I don't care for men like him especially.

I share the feeling of my uncle in Kennard--" "You have an uncle there?
I thought you were from the East." "I am; from Ohio.

But I've an uncle and aunt living in Kennard, which is the reason Ruth and I came to this section for homesteads.

Ruth was crazy to take up a claim, having read how easily one is acquired, while my health was not very good and the doctor at home thought it would be improved by being in the open in a high altitude.