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dollars cash. I ought to save enough ready money 

 for wages and that kind of thing ; but of course if 

 you think a second team an absolute necessity one 

 must get them." 



" Mr. Creegan says there's a man at Fort 

 Qu'Appelle named Shore who has a team for sale. 

 Why not go down and see them to-day ? " he 

 suggested. " Then to-morrow you might go out 

 to South Qu'Appelle, cash the draft, and find out 

 if the bank won't let you draw anything you need 

 on the strength of the crop. The last chap let 

 them all in pretty badly I fear, and naturally 

 bankers and people won't trust women in business. 

 Besides, in any case they are certain to debit you 

 with the lesson he taught them ; and I can tell you 

 that Canada is not a pleasant country in which to 

 be saddled with a responsibility unless you have 

 plenty of cash to see it through. Won't you wish 

 yourself out of it before long ! " 



" But, Lai," I expostulated, " the old man says 

 that there are two thousand five hundred bushels of 

 wheat at least, and two thousand five hundred 

 bushels of wheat at a dollar a bushel is two thousand 

 five hundred dollars, and two thousand five hundred 

 dollars is five hundred and twenty-five pounds. If 

 I get five hundred pounds over now I can draw 

 from my income a further five hundred pounds 

 in instalments if necessary, and then the wheat 

 being worth five hundred pounds and possibly 

 more " 



" Well, the wheat is Ai, I grant you," he allowed, 

 " and perhaps you may come out all right." In 

 those days one of us couldn't have been more 

 optimistic than another over the illusion of the 



