There is not
a tree on it, and it is all good feeding-ground. What I intend to do
is to inclose it with the spruce-fir posts and rails that we are about
to cut down, and then set a hedge upon a low bank which I shall raise
all round inside the rails. I know where there are thousands of
seedling-thorns, which I shall take up in the winter, or early in the
spring, to put in, as the bank will be ready for them by that time."
"Well, that's all very good; but I fear it will be a long while before
you have such a quantity of land dug up."
"Yes, of course it will; but, Edward, I have plenty of manure to
spare, and I shall put it all over this land, and then it will become
a rich pasture, and also an earlier pasture than what we can get from
the forest, and will be very handy to turn the cows and the calves
upon; or even Billy, if we want him in a hurry."
"All that is very true," replied Edward; "so that it will be useful at
all events, if you do not dig it up."
"Indeed it will," replied Humphrey; "I only wish it were six acres
instead of three."
"I can't say I do," replied Edward, laughing; "you are too grand in
your ideas; only think what a quantity of spruces we shall have to cut
down on it, to post and rail what you just propose.
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