principles, or talkin' politics, there ain't no man equal
to him, hardly. He is a book, that's a fact; it's all
there what you want; all you've got to do is to cut the
leaves. Name the word in the index, he'll turn to the
page, and give you day, date, and fact, for it. There is
no mistake in him.

"That cussed provokin' visit of yours to Scotland will
shove them things into the next book, I'm afeered. But
it don't signify nothin'; you can't cram all into one,
and we hante only broke the crust yet, and p'rhaps it's
as well to look afore you leap too, or you might make as
big a fool of yourself, as some of the Britishers have
a-writin' about us and the provinces. Oh yes, it's a
great advantage havin' minister with you. He'll fell the
big stiff trees for you; and I'm the boy for the saplin's,
I've got the eye and the stroke for them. They spring so
confoundedly under the axe, does second growth and
underwood, it's dangerous work, but I've got the sleight
o' hand for that, and we'll make a clean field of it.

"Then come and survey; take your compass and chain to
the ground and measure, and lay that off--branch and bark
the spars for snakin' off the ground; cord up the fire-wood,
tie up the hoop poles, and then burn off the trash and
rubbish. Do it workman-like. Take your time to it as if
you was workin' by the day. Don't hurry, like job work;
don't slobber it over, and leave half-burnt trees and
logs strewed about the surface, but make smack smooth
work. Do that, Squire, do it well, and that is, only