It's a real handsome one an' he has made it pay, but I wouldn't swap with him." Samson smiled, remembering that Robert had a liquor store.

"Look here, Henry Brimstead, we're hungry," he said.

"If ye furnish the water, we'll skirmish around for bread and give ye as good a dinner as ye ever had in yer life." Henry took the horses to his barn and watered and fed them.

Then he brought two pails of water from the spring.

Meanwhile Samson started a fire in a grove of small poplars by the roadside and began broiling venison, and Sarah got out the bread board and the flour and the rolling-pin and the teapot.