. St. Nicholas [serial] . the timber claim on the NorthBranch, and we boys can live there; then youand Uncle Charlie can keep one of the claimshere. We can build two cabins, and you oldfolks can live in one and we in another. The fathers exchanged glances, and said : I dont see how I could livewithout Sandy and Charlie. Mr. Howell looked vaguely off over the rollingslope on which they were standing, and said: We will chance it with the boys on the tim-ber land; but I am not in favor of taking uptwo claims here. Let the timber claim be inmy name or yours, and the boys can live onit. B
. St. Nicholas [serial] . the timber claim on the NorthBranch, and we boys can live there; then youand Uncle Charlie can keep one of the claimshere. We can build two cabins, and you oldfolks can live in one and we in another. The fathers exchanged glances, and said : I dont see how I could livewithout Sandy and Charlie. Mr. Howell looked vaguely off over the rollingslope on which they were standing, and said: We will chance it with the boys on the tim-ber land; but I am not in favor of taking uptwo claims 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 were disposedto regard their rights and duties as actual set-tlers. He argued that settlers were entitled toall they could get and hold ; and he was infavor of the partys trying to hold three claims of. 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 emi-gration to the south side of the RepublicanFork; most of the settlers went further to thesouth; or they halted further east, and fixedtheir stakes along the line of the Big Blue, andother more accessible regions. We 11 chance it, wont we, Aleck ? saidMr. Bryant. one hundred and sixty acres each, even if therewere only two men legally entitled to enterhomesteads. Would nt Charlie be of age be-fore the time came to take out a patent for theland ? But he is not of age to enter upon and holdthe land now, said his father, stiffly. So it was settled that the two men shouldenter upon the quarter-section of farming land,and build a cabin as soon as convenient, and thatthe
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