“I’d like to live here the whole year,� said Robbie. “It must be fine coasting here in the winter.�
“We get snow in July from the Bear’s Den,� said Mrs. Porter.
“I will take the farm at fifteen hundred dollars, and you may have the fifty-acre tract on your own terms,� said Wycliff.
Just then Robbie, who had wandered a few rods in advance of the rest of the party, came running back.
“Oh, ma, come quick! Here are some deer, just like those we used to see on Mrs. Colt’s grounds, in Hartford. Pop is right. This is God’s country, all right.�
Sure enough, there at the foot of the bluff were a half dozen of the beautiful creatures.
“They seem to understand that the law protects them,� said Mrs. Porter. “Sometimes they come into the barnyard with the cattle.�
CHAPTER VII.
“ZECHARIAH, I want you to give Joel Byron his old place in the mill. I do not approve of discharging workmen for their politics.�
“I shall do no such thing, Sister Eva. Byron was not discharged for his politics, but for attempting to create discontent among his fellow-workmen.�