Bub and the Fawn. Page 64.
CHAPTER V.
BROTHER SMITH AND QUARTER STAKES.
“Good morning, Mr. Jones. I suppose we may call this Indian summer–may we not?” and the missionary–for it was he–shook hands with the hunter.
“Scarcely time for it yet,” replied the latter. “But this is fine weather, though.”
“Shall you be busy to-day? I wish to find a good quarter section of land on which to put up a house. I have been thinking that as I have never pre-empted, and have therefore a right to do so, I may as well do it.”
The hunter laughed scornfully, and said,–