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"Well, yis. A small matter." "A quarter-section or so?" "A quarter-township or so wud be much nearer," said Battersleigh dryly. "You don't mean it?" "Shure I do. It's a fool for luck; allowin' Batty's a fool, as ye've always thought, though I've denied it. Now ye know the railroad's crazy for poppylation, an' it can't wait. It fairly offers land free to thim that'll come live on it.
He turned from the manager and walked away through the drying yard, up the main street of Sequoia, and on into the second-growth timber at the edge of the town. Presently he emerged on the old, decaying skid-road and continued on through his logged-over lands, across the little divide and down into the quarter-section of green timber he had told McTavish not to cut.
"By getting as much summer fallowing as possible done on the second quarter-section. The first has been growing wheat for some time; I'll sew part of that with timothy. There's one bit of stiff land I might put in flax. I've thought of trying corn for the silo." "Timothy and a silo?" commented Grant. "You're going in for stock, then? It means laying out money, and a slow return." "I'm afraid so.
But he broke in after a time, gruffly: "What's the trouble between Dale and the Nylands?" Instantly she stiffened. "I forgot to tell you about that. Ben Nyland is a nester. He has a quarter-section of land on the northwestern edge of the basin. But he hasn't proved on it. The land adjoins Dale's. Dale wants it he has always wanted it. And he means to have it. He also wants Peggy Nyland.
Then Thomas resorted to his familiar practice of taking land on credit. The Lincolns were now part of a "settlement" of seven or eight families strung along a little stream known as Pigeon Creek. Here Thomas entered a quarter-section of fair land, and in the course of the next eleven years succeeded wonderful to relate in paying down sufficient money to give him title to about half.
"Well, Bryce, my boy," he began, "a little bird tells me your daddy is considering the sale of Cardigan's Redwoods, or the Valley of the Giants, as your paternal ancestor prefers to refer to that little old quarter-section out yonder on the edge of town. How about it?" Bryce stared at him a moment questioningly. "Yes, Judge," he replied, "we'll sell, if we get our price."
One's the kind that will get up and hustle, break land, and build new homes log at first, frame and stone afterwards. They go on from a quarter-section and a team of oxen to the biggest farm they can handle, and every fresh furrow they cut enriches all of us. The other kind want to sit down in the dirt and take life easily, as they've always done.
It's rather the pride of wresting another quarter-section from the prairie, taking our own by labour, breaking the wilderness. You" and he added this as though to explain that he could hardly expect her to quite grasp his views "have never been out West?" His hostess laughed.
Look, they've headed us off. We can't travel forward. We can't go back. I expect we'll have to file on the quarter-section where we are," he drawled. A rider had galloped forward and was dismounting close to the river. He took shelter behind a boulder. Billie swept with a glance the plain to their right. A group of horsemen was approaching.
Well, he who laughs last laughs best, and if I can't get that quarter-section by paying more than ten times what it's worth in the open market, I'll get it some other way, if it costs me a million." "How?" Shirley had queried at the time. "Never mind, my dear," he had answered darkly. "You wouldn't understand the procedure if I told you.
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