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There seems to be a notion in the Old Country that we earn our dollars easily, but it's very wrong. We'll take that man's case as an example. He has a little, desolate holding up in the bush of Ontario, a hole chopped out of the forest studded all over with sawn-off fir-stumps, with a little, two-roomed log shack on it.
"No doubt it would be some solace to you to make him realize his offences, but I scarcely think it would be advisable." Then they rode down into the valley, through oatfields, and between the tall fir-stumps that rose amidst the fern, under the boughs of an orchard, and up to the square log-house.
'Say you can help yourself, and roll me up on the sledge', said the Bear. 'No, thank ye, I can help myself well enough', said the man, and rolled the Bear on to the sledge. 'Such fir-stumps we always bind fast on our sledges in our part of the world', bawled out the voice; 'shall I come and help you? 'Say you can help yourself, and bind me fast, do', said the Bear.
There seems to be a notion in the Old Country that we earn our money easily, but it's very wrong. We'll take that man's case as an example. He has a little, desolate holding up in the bush of Ontario, a hole chopped out of the forest and studded all over with sawn-off fir-stumps. On it is a little two-roomed log shack.
Deringham picked his way amidst the six-foot fir-stumps girdled with tall fern, over a breadth of white ashes and charcoal where the newly-won land lay waiting for the plough, in and out amidst the chaos of trunks that lay piled athwart each other all round the clearing, and stopped close by three men who were making an onslaught on a majestic tree.
"In a general way, I should endeavour to earn a few more dollars by pulling out fir-stumps for somebody or clearing land." Wisbech nodded. "No doubt they're useful occupations, but one would scarcely fancy them likely to prove very remunerative," he said. "You have, it seems to me, reached an age when you have to choose. Are you content to go on as you are doing now?"
'No, I haven't seen any', said Eric. 'What's that then, that stands alongside your sledge? bawled out the voice in the wood. 'Say it's an old fir-stump', said the Bear. 'Oh, it's only an old fir-stump', said the man. 'Such fir-stumps we take in our country and roll them on our sledges', bawled out the voice; 'if you can't do it yourself, I'll come and help you.
'The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill. So homeward I go through a labyrinth of fir-stems and, what is worse, fir-stumps, which need both my eyes and my horse's at every moment; and woe to the 'anchorite, as old Bunbury names him, who carries his nose in the air, and his fore feet well under him.
Behind it, and a little farther back among the trees, was the rude barn, built of big notched logs, and roofed with cedar shingles. In front there lay some twenty acres of cleared land, out of which rose the fir-stumps, girdled with withered fern, for a warm wind from the Pacific had swept the snow away.
'No, thanks, I can help myself well enough', said the man, who set to binding Bruin fast with all the ropes he had, so that at last the bear couldn't stir a paw. 'Such fir-stumps we always drive our axes into, in our part of the world', bawled out the voice; 'for then we guide them better going down the steep pitches. 'Pretend to drive your axe into me, do now', said the bear.
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