"Well, and so you're looking for help eh?" said uncle
Joshua, when he had heard him through.
"Yes, Sir I want help."
"And a team too?"
"So I have said, Sir," Mr. Rossitur answered rather shortly.
"Can you supply me?"
"Well, I don't know as I can," said the old man, rubbing his hands slowly over his knees. "You ha'n't got much done yet, I s'pose?"
"Nothing. I came the day before yesterday."
"Land's in rather poor condition in some parts, aint it?"
"I really am not able to say, Sir, till I have seen it."
"It ought to be," said the old gentleman, shaking his head, "the fellow that was there last didn't do right by it. He worked the land too hard, and didn't put on it anywhere near what he had ought to; I guess you'll find it pretty poor in some places. He was trying to get all he could out of it, I s'pose. There's a good deal of fencing to be done too, aint there?"
"All that there was, Sir, I have done none since I came."