Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . l their appointments. Yetthe everyday work and play, the farm animals, andthe changing seasons held plenty of charm for thechildren and they were content. Their elders possiblysaw a darker and duller side. However, they werespurred on by their hopes for the future. They wereconstantly winning in their fight with the wilderness,clearing up and improving the land, setting out fruittrees, increasing the number of their domestic animalsso that the time seemed coming when they would beassured of a good and valuable farm and a comfortableincome. As for pres
Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . l their appointments. Yetthe everyday work and play, the farm animals, andthe changing seasons held plenty of charm for thechildren and they were content. Their elders possiblysaw a darker and duller side. However, they werespurred on by their hopes for the future. They wereconstantly winning in their fight with the wilderness,clearing up and improving the land, setting out fruittrees, increasing the number of their domestic animalsso that the time seemed coming when they would beassured of a good and valuable farm and a comfortableincome. As for present discomforts, I doubt if theseoccasioned any special chafing, for these were partand parcel of the prevailing way of living in the region. It was interesting to watch a man ploughing newground and see how irregularly he had to dodge aboutto avoid stumps and snags, and how constantly thehorses were jerked to a standstill by some obstructionthe plough had encountered. Yes, said a resident,a former dweller in Tennessee, whom I accosted at. Visiting at the gate At the Edge of Canada 293 this task, thars a right smart of green roots in hyar,and a heap of fern roots, too. His small boy was busy pulling out such roots as theplough loosened and piling them up to burn, and in afew days they would have a crop of oats started. In a neighboring field a man with the help of hiswife was gathering up fragments of stumps on a woodensledge and making great bonfires of them. This isspare time work, said he. Ive got some good cowsand a cream separator, and were makin butter enoughto supply us with the money to pay our living when theres no hurry about the other things weclear^up the land and we are makin what will one ofthese days be a ranch we can sell for a high price. Inthe rough you can buy this land cheap, and by clearingit gradually at odd times your labor dont mean anyreal outlay. I was about to resume my walk, but the man said hiswife was just starting to the house to get d
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