76 THE ROMANCE OF EVERIFARM 



eral men came and began building a house, cutting 

 trees and hewing out the logs and soon they had a 

 home constructed that is a part of the cottage you 

 see across the road, although it has been rebuilt 

 many times. 



"Then followed years of new activities. The road 

 which had been cut through the timber from the 

 east was extended farther west. More houses were 

 built. Prairie was broken by plowing with three and 

 four yoke of oxen. Grains were planted and har- 

 vested. Cattle were raised in droves of thousands, 

 that grazed all over the prairie in summer and 

 sheltered in the timber during the winter. 



"Now, I suppose you would like to know who the 

 young man and woman were. Well, they were the 

 grandfather and grandmother of the man who owns 

 the big farm — the man of the third generation — 

 and during the winter the other grandfather, who 

 lived just a few miles away, would come over and 

 they would then go deer hunting for the winter's 

 supply of venison. It was great to see these two 

 young men, with their sled, drive out through the 

 timber over the freshly fallen snow, and return the 

 next day with three or four fine buck deer shot with 

 the long old-fashioned flint-lock rifles made by a 

 member of their own family. The venison was 



