CHAPTER X.
THE FINEST LITTLE WOMAN IN THE WORLD "You tell Mr.Picardy that I ain't visitin' nobody, so he needn't consider that I'm company," announced Jerry, after a wait that was beginning to rasp the nerves of his visitors.

"I come here to live! He's called this land hisn, by authority uh the king uh Spain, you say, for over twenty year.

Wall, in twenty year he ain't set so much as a fence-post fur as the eye can see.

I been five mile from here on every side, and I don't see no signs of his ever usin' the land fer nothin'.

Now, mebby the king uh Spain knew what he was talkin' about when he give this land away, and then agin mebby he didn't.