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Sabbath patience, and told him as nicely as I could 

 that in stooking I must find my superior, and that 

 he wouldn't do. I heard months after that he went 

 on to Regina to follow his own trade, and a year 

 ago that he was doing wonderfully well, and had 

 already been back to England to spend a winter with 

 his own people. I drove him into Fort Qu'Appelle, 

 and went on to a house on the lake shore where I 

 heard an Englishman and his wife were to be found 

 who had farmed in the Mother Country. They 

 were looking for work, and would possibly be glad 

 to become my caretakers for the winter. 



The English woman was fair and beautifully neat 

 and clean. A flufl^y-haired, fairy-like little girl 

 was running about in a scarlet dressing-gown, 

 just out of her bath. The house was spotlessly 

 clean. The mother told me that her husband was 

 away on the hill, stooking for some people that I 

 knew, but that her brother-in-law had just arrived 

 and might possibly care to come and stook for me. 

 I drove up and recognized the young Englishman 

 who had lately arrived from New Zealand through 

 his likeness to the little girl. I told him my business 

 and that I was prepared to pay twenty cents an 

 hour — two dollars a day, but that I required his 

 services immediately. He stopped at the house to 

 get his bag, and drove home with me in the wagon 

 to the farm. I undertook to finish twenty-five 

 acres, and he crossed over at once to the farther 

 breaking. He stooked from dawn to dark without 

 a hint of waning energy, and he asked me if 

 twenty cents an hour held good if he could get in 

 an hour extra. 



" That's a great man you found," Si Booth said. 



