Do you know how father and I settle it ?" "No," said Mr.Maxwell.
"We got so tired of the whole business, and the farmers around here spent so much time in discussing the art of roadmaking, as to whether it should be viewed from the engineering point of view, or the farmers' practical point of view, and whether we would require this number of stump extractors or that number, and how many shovels and crushers and ditchers would be necessary to keep our roads in order, and so on, that we simply withdrew.

We keep our own roads in order.

Once a year, father gets a gang of men and tackles every section of the road that borders upon our land, and our roads are the best around here.

I wish the government would take up this matter of making roads and settle it.

If we had good, smooth, country roads, such as they have in some parts of Europe, we would be able to travel comfortably over them all through the year, and our draught animals would last longer, for they would not have to expend so much energy in drawing their loads.".