They wished to find good land on which to build, and plant, and raise their big families of healthy children, and when they found such land they wished to make thereon their permanent homes.

They did not share the impulse which kept their squalid, roving fellows of the backwoods ever headed for the vague beyond.

They had no sympathy with the feeling which drove these humbler wilderness-wanderers always onwards, and made them believe, wherever they were, that they would be better off somewhere else, that they would be better off in that somewhere which lay in the unknown and untried.

On the contrary, these thriftier settlers meant to keep whatever they had once grasped.

They got clear title to their lands.