My days were full of duties connected with the new house, or the crops and improvements for the next year.

And spring would soon be here.
I was beginning to be looked upon as a driving man.

They had scoffed at me as a young Englishman who could not endure the frontier life, and who knew nothing of farming.

But they saw me take hold with so much vigor and interest that I was soon spoken of as an immediate success.

My coming to the hut and living and doing for myself had helped greatly to confirm me in their esteem.