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Homesteading up there, I presume?" "In a way of speaking. You remember I asked you a question." "And I told you to go to Halifax." "Well, I came back to answer the question myself. You're going to turn the young lady loose." "If you say so." Weaver's voice carried an inflection of sarcasm. "That's what I say. Miss Sanderson, will you kindly unbuckle that belt and round up the weapons of war?
By the time we were old enough to see that things were not going well financially at home, we knew we must make our own way. Some of the girls we knew talked about "going homesteading" as a wild adventure. They boasted of friends or relatives who had gone to live on a claim as though they had gone lion-hunting in Africa or gold-hunting in Alaska. A homestead. At first thought the idea was absurd.
Most homesteaders are getting a thousand-dollar loan when they prove up." "Yes, but your land's a mile long and only a quarter wide " Ida Mary was not easily bluffed. She reached for the receipt. "I'll try Sedgwick at the bank." "We'll make it nine hundred," the agent said, "but not a cent more. I know that quarter section; it's pretty rough." Homesteading was no longer a precarious venture.
Hard and unrelieved as their lives were in many respects, gallantly as they shouldered their part of the burden of homesteading, the women inevitably brought one important factor into the homesteaders' lives.
The great tracts thus acquired were then surveyed into quarter-sections and thrown open to homesteading. In order to prevent the violence which had attended the Oklahoma land opening, a new method was hit upon. A proclamation was issued by President Theodore Roosevelt, announcing the opening of land on the Lower Brulé Indian Reservation.
Corliss made a gesture of apology. "So you're homesteading the water-hole? Jack wrote to me about it. He didn't say anything about your getting married." "Kind of like his not sayin' anything about your gettin' hitched up, eh? He said he was hearin' from you, but nothin' about Misses Corliss. Please to expect my congratulations, ma'am and you, too, Billy." "Thank you!" said Mrs. Corliss, smiling.
That young man was watching him with an odd look of challenge on his usually impassive face. The cattleman felt the spur of a new antagonism stirring his blood. There was something almost like a sneer on his lips as he spoke: "Sorry to lose your company, Mr. Keller. But if you're homesteading, of course, we'll have to let you go back to the hills right away.
When I read of the hard times among the Denver poor, I feel like urging them every one to get out and file on land. I am very enthusiastic about women homesteading. It really requires less strength and labor to raise plenty to satisfy a large family than it does to go out to wash, with the added satisfaction of knowing that their job will not be lost to them if they care to keep it.
"I told you once that you had bewitched me. It was true; I am bewitched, have been ever since I touched your dear lips. And I love you. It hurts my heart to think of you at this homesteading business " "What else was there for me?" she asked. "I've had no business training, nothing but two years in a college, no knowledge of anything that a girl needs to hold a position.
It was the royal opinion that real homesteading should be insisted upon, and he decreed, accordingly, that wherever a habitant did not make a substantial start in clearing his farm, the land should be forfeited in a year to the seigneur. This arret, unlike its companion decree, was rigidly enforced.
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