I've got a log cabin with one room.

I've slept there alone fer a good many years, holding down my land." "But," he added quickly, "that's a-going to be your place.

Me--I'm out a leetle ways off, in the flat, beyond the first row of willers between the house and the creek--I always sleep in a tent in the summer time.
I allow you'd feel safer in a house." "I've always read about western life," said she slowly, in her gentle voice.

"If only--I wish----" "So do I, ma'am," said Sim Gage.
But neither really knew what was the wish in the other's heart..