He had made his will, whereby he left everything to Charlotte, and to her children after her if she married.

He worked very hard.

In summer he tilled his great farm, in winter he cut wood.
The winter of the tenth year after his quarrel with Charlotte was a very severe one--full of snow-storms and fierce winds, and bitterly cold.

All winter long the swamps were frozen up, and men could get into them to cut wood.

Barney went day after day and cut the wood in a great swamp a mile behind his house.