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Updated: May 11, 2025
There can be but little social intercourse; some suffer materially from the want of public worship and religious instruction, and all must feel its absence. Still, those who are fitted for a life in the bush, and have led it for any length of time, quit it generally with regret, and return to it with satisfaction. Never had the Gilpins been more busy. Their house was nearly finished.
Its population, like that of most respectable suburbs, must belong mainly to the kind of citizens which resembles in many ways the better class, as we sometimes dare to call it, of one of our thriving New England towns. How many John Gilpins there must be in this population, citizens of "famous London town," but living with the simplicity of the inhabitants of our inland villages!
They could teach them much connected with the dairy and numerous household duties, of which they had never heard. Not that the Miss Gilpins were, in the slightest degree, less refined or less educated than their new friends. Of course, the visit was to be returned; there was some joking, however, on that subject, which a stranger might not very clearly have understood.
Fortunately their eyes first fell on the wounded man as he lay on a bed in the outer room. The stretcher of boughs, on which he had been brought to the hut, still remained outside. A few words passed between them. They lifted him on the litter, neither the Gilpins nor Green being able to prevent them, and, with a shout of triumph, they carried him off towards the river.
The Miss Gilpins and their sisters-in-law would have been inclined to laugh at this speech, had it not been for the impudence of Mark's looks and tone. On the arrival of the gentlemen he softened his manner; and James and Arthur, ever kind and thoughtful, began at once to consider how they could employ their old companion, so that he might not feel the weight of his obligation to them.
"Oh, Master Gilpins, there's a chap been and run off wi' all my traps, and I've not a rag left, but just what I stand in!" Sam was, of course, glad enough to assist in carrying their luggage. James apologised to the stranger, saying he would not trouble him. "Not so fast, young chum!" exclaimed the man. "You promised me a couple of nobblers, and engaged me to call a porter.
I will try, by God's mercy, poor helpless creature that I am, to find some means of usefulness, that so I may not be a mere cumberer of the earth, but may repay in any way that may offer itself some little portion of the kindness of my benefactors." The Gilpins had truly been fruitful fig trees. All they undertook prospered.
The Gilpins and their overseer, Craven, spared no exertion to save, as far as possible, the loss of property. One day Arthur had gone in search of some cattle, which had strayed among the range of mountains to the west.
You, James, are so above me, that I don't pretend to understand what you mean." Saying this with a condescending air, he shook hands with the two brothers, and entered the house of his father, who was the principal solicitor of the town. The two Gilpins walked on towards their home. Their father possessed a small landed property, which he farmed himself.
It seemed to raise him out of the state of hopeless apathy into which he had fallen. The hut at headquarters had greatly improved in appearance since it had become the residence of the Gilpins.
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