My timber stretches back from the lake for eight miles; they either will have to go beyond that and truck in the logs for that distance, which would be ruinous as far as profits are concerned, or content themselves with scrub pine and sapling spruce.

I don't see what they can make out of that.

Isn't that right?
All I know about it is from what I've heard.

I've never made a cruise of the territory around here.

But it's always been my belief that with the exception of the land on the other quarter of the lake--" "That is all." "Then where--" But again Ba'tiste shrugged his shoulders.