Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 308
here. Let the timber claim be inmy name or yours, and the boys can live onit. But we cant take up two claims here andthe timber besides—three in all—with only twofull-grown men among the whole of us. Thatstands to reason. Younkins was a little puzzled by the strictnesswith which the two new-comers… … younkins argued that settlers were entitled to all they could get and hold. Younkins brightened up at Sandys sugges-tion, and he added that the two men might takeup two farming claims, side by side, and let theboys try and hold the timber claim on the NorthBranch. Thus far, there was no rush of…
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