Part 72 (2/2)
”Sure to be, Jem, and hundreds of wonders to see if we journey on”
”Dessay,that hollow place where the big fir trees is growing”
”Lovely, Jem What a beautiful home it would make”
”Say, Mas' Don, let's make our fortunes”
”How?”
”Let's set up in trade, and deal in wood Lookye yonder, there's fir trees there, that if we cut 'em down and trimmed 'em, they'd be worth no end o' money in Bristol, for shi+ps' oing to get the his head ”Never thought of that”
There was half an hour's drowsy silence The sun shone doith glorious power, and the lizards rustled ae stones From the forest behind there came the buzz of insects, and the occasional cry of some parrot Save for these sounds all onderfully still
And they sat there gazing before them at the hundreds of acres of uncultivated land, rich in its wild beauty, unwilling to move, till Don said suddenly,--
”Yes, Je”
”Yes, Mas' Don What?”
”I don't know, Je useful to do I couldn't shead after a fashi+on; but if I did, there arn't no sugar to put in it, and--”
”Look, Jem!”
”What at, Mas' Don? Eh?” he continued as he followed his coht you said there was no beasts here”
”And there are none”
”Well, if that arn't a drove o' cattle co down that mountain side, I'm a Dutchman”
”It does look like it, Jee”
”Look like it, Mas' Don? Why, it is Brown cattle, and you can see if you look at the sun shi+ning on their horns”
”Horns! Jem!” cried Don, excitedly; ”they're spears!”
”What?”
”And those are savages”