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"This is brave talking," he at length grumbled; "but to my judgment,
too lawyer-like, for a straight forward, fair-weather, and
foul-weather hunter."
"I claim to be no better than a trapper," the other meekly answered.
"Hunter or trapper--there is little difference. I have come, old man,
into these districts because I found the law sitting too tight upon
me, and am not over fond of neighbours who can't settle a dispute
without troubling a justice and twelve men; but I didn't come to be
robb'd of my plunder, and then to say thank'ee to the man who did it!"
"He, who ventures far into the prairies, must abide by the ways of its
owners."
"Owners!" echoed the squatter, "I am as rightful an owner of the land
I stand on, as any governor in the States! Can you tell me, stranger,
where the law or the reason, is to be found, which says that one man
shall have a section, or a town, or perhaps a county to his use, and
another have to beg for earth to make his grave in? This is not
nature, and I deny that it is law.


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