"I'll have to charge you four dollars a day for it, but I'll take it in bark as payment.

With the wagon you'll be able to bring in a lot more bark than you could without a wagon." "It's a fine idea, sir," glowed Dick, "and you're mighty kind to us." "Not especially kind," smiled the boat builder.

"I can use a lot of this bark in my business, and I'm glad to get it on as reasonable a basis as you boys can bring it to me.

You see, it's lucky that Katson's Hill is wild and distant land.

If we had a land owner to deal with he'd make us pay high for the privilege of stripping the bark." "But why couldn't you send your own workmen out to cut the bark ?" Dick asked.