90, in, etc., condensed.] This was the life of the thrifty pioneers, whose children more than held their own in the world.
The shiftless men without ambition and without thrift, lived in laziness and filth; their eating and sleeping arrangements were as unattractive as those of an Indian wigwam.
Peculiar Qualities of the Pioneers.
Native Americans did Best.
The pleasures and the toils of the life were alike peculiar.

In the wilder parts the loneliness and the fierce struggle with squalid poverty, and with the tendency to revert to savage conditions, inevitably produced for a generation or two a certain falling off from the standard of civilized communities.

It needed peculiar qualities to insure success, and the pioneers were almost exclusively native Americans.

The Germans were more thrifty and prosperous, but they could not go first into the wilderness.

[Footnote: Michaux, p.