By ten o'clock he had selected a claim and staked it out.

It was just the place for his great school.

When the country should have settled up, he would found a farm-school here and make a great institution out of it.

The Inhabitant was delighted with the prospect of having the brother of an angel for a neighbor, and readily made a bargain to erect for Charlton a cabin like his own for purposes of pre-emption.

Albert's lively imagination had already planned the building and grounds of his institution.
During the whole of that sunshiny day that Charlton waited for the waters of Pleasant Brook to subside, George Gray, the Inhabitant of the lone cabin, exhausted his ingenuity in endeavoring to make his hospitality as complete as possible.