'Sound good wood it is, not made to fall.

Her ladyship's at it hard to-day.

She 'll teach Mr.Addicote a thing or two about things females can do.

That is, when they stand for their rights.' He explained to Weyburn that Mr.Addicote, a yeoman farmer and a good hunting man, but a rare obstinate one, now learning his lesson from her ladyship, was in dispute with her over rights of property on a stretch of fir-trees lining the ridge where the estates of Olmer and Addicotes met.

Her ladyship had sworn that if he did not yield to her claim she would cut down every tree of the ridge and sell the lot for timber under his nose.