Locating a Homestead 



, and begin seeding on a stretch a mile long that 

 had been prepared the fall before. 



Hitching up our bulls, we started to renew 

 pur homestead explorations, and having learned 

 from Bert and Fred that there were one or two 

 quarters worth looking at in their part, which 

 lay to the westward, we turned our faces in that 

 direction. 



We found the country much less covered with 

 scrub than the part we had seen the previous day, 

 and some of it was rolling downland. Having 

 spent most of the morning in looking at one or 

 two vacant quarters, but without being favour- 

 ably impressed by them, we came about dinner- 

 time to the house of a worthy Dane and his wife, 

 who invited us into their comfortable shack 

 and to a share of their midday meal. Our hosts, 

 we found, could speak English well, and added 

 to oiu* store of useful information of the district, 

 telling us that west of them were some Swedes, 

 and further on some Russians, while to the north 

 were some English and people from the States. 



Starting out once more, we came in the course 

 ' of the afternoon to a vacant quarter which 

 seemed to deserve more careful consideration 

 than those we had previously seen. From the 

 top of a little rise, near the north line or border 

 of this homestead, the view stretched away to 



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