[The Gold Trail by Harold Bindloss]@TWC D-Link bookThe Gold Trail CHAPTER XIII 5/21
"Know anything about sailing a boat ?" Weston said that he did, and Stirling nodded. "That's good," he observed somewhat dryly, "so does the major man." Weston ventured to smile at this, and once more his employer's eyes twinkled. "Some of you people from the old country are quite hard to amuse; though I'm open to admit that we have a few of the same kind on this side," he said.
"My daughter seemed to fancy they wouldn't find a lake camp quite right without a boat, so I sent along and bought one at Toronto.
Had her put on a flat car, and hired half the teams in the district to haul her to the lake.
Now, I guess there are men in this country who, if they wanted a boat, would just take an ax and whipsaw and build one out of the woods." Weston laughed.
He was commencing to understand the man better, for he had met other men of Stirling's description in Canada.
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