“I don’t know,” I said.
“But we found it—leastwise you did. All this land ought to be yours, or ours. I say, how is it going to be?”
“I don’t understand you,” I said.
“I mean about that. I s’pose you consider you found it?”
“Well, there isn’t much doubt about that,” I said.
“Oh, I don’t see nothing to laugh at in it. All right, then. I don’t grumble, only you can’t say as all the country up here is to be yours.”
“Of course not. What do you mean?”
“Oh, only that I don’t see no fun in your making a fortune and me being left nowhere. I want a fortune too. I’m going to hunt now for myself.”
“Nonsense!” I cried; “what is the use of your going away? Isn’t there enough here for both of us?”
“Dunno,” said Esau, scratching his head. “That is what I want to know; you ain’t got much yet.”