"I agree with you entirely.

No man ought to marry under those circumstances.

But I wish you would enlighten me on one point,--what are shanties ?" "Log-houses of the roughest possible kind, such as are built in the woods for the gangs of lumberers; that is, you know, the men who cut down the trees and prepare them for shipping." "But Mrs.Bayne said something about shanties near here." "Yes.

Beyond their house, there lies, along the river, a swamp of no great extent, which ought to have been drained long ago.

Beyond that, on the edge of the bush, is a large saw-mill, and the families of the men employed at this mill live in shanties close by.