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And late that night a savage war party called at the camp with spear and torch, to find it only an empty shell, to their huge disappointment. Other captains, less wise, came after Leif in their timber-hunting, and not all came safely home again.
"As I've pointed out, you have spent a good deal of the cash you got when you turned the Clermont over to the company. In fact, that's one reason why I didn't try to head off this timber-hunting scheme. You can't spend much over the search, and if the spruce comes up to expectations, you ought to get it back. It would be a fortunate change, after your extravagance in England." Vane frowned.
"Well," said he, "You may depend that was a fire my hair curls yet when I think of it it was the same summer we got married, and Washington Welford having been out a timber-hunting with me the fall afore, we discovered a most elegant growth of pine I never see'd before nor since the equal on it regular sixty footers, every log on 'em the trees stood on the banks of the river, as if growing there on purpose to be handy for rafting, and we having got a first-rate supply from our merchants in town, toted our things with some of the old woman's house trumpery to the spot we soon had up a shanty, and went to work in right airnest.
"Laying thee foundation-stone," the Maluka called it. Johnny of course welcomed us with a jovial "Now we shan't be long," and shouldering a tomahawk, led the way out of the camp into the timber. House-hunting in town does not compare favourably with timber-hunting for a house, in a luxuriant tropical forest.
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