[The White Desert by Courtney Ryley Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe White Desert CHAPTER XIV 20/24
So. One million ties, seven by eight by eight feet, at the one dollar and the forty cents.
Put that down." "I have it.
But what--" "Wait! Five thousan' bridge timber, ten by ten by sixteen feet, at the three dollar and ninety cents." "Yes--" "Ten thousand feet of the four by four, at--" "Ba'tiste!" Houston had risen suddenly.
"What have you got there ?" The trapper grinned and pulled at his gray-splotched beard. "Oh, ho! Golemar! He wan' to know.
Shall we tell heem, eh? Ah, _oui_--" he shook his big shoulders and spread his hands.
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