like you read about in books my i wish that boy that took me fishing to goat island could see me now was just a place to start from he said and well we ve started haven t we and right here s where we stop and boil coffee you get the fire going and i ll get the water and the things ready to spread out say remarked while they waited for the water to boil d ye know what this reminds me oft saxon was certain she did know but she shook her head she wanted to hear him say it why the second sunday i knew you when we drove out to valley behind prince and king you spread the lunch that day only it was a more lunch she added with a happy smile but i wonder why we didn t have coffee that day he went on perhaps it would have ben too much like by ic the valley of the moon ing she laughed kind of what mary would call r raw she was always that word and yet look what became of her that s the way with all of them growled i ve always noticed it s the fastidious la de da ones that turn out the they re like some horses i know a at the things they re the least afraid of saxon was silent oppressed by a sadness vague and remote which the mention of s widow had served to bring on i know something else that happened that day which you d never guess i bet you couldn t i wonder saxon murmured and guessed it with her eyes s eyes answered and quite he reached over caught her hand and pressed it to his cheek it s little but oh my he said addressing the imprisoned hand then he gazed at saxon and she warmed with his words we re all over again ain t we both ate heartily and was guilty of three cups of coffee say this country air gives some appetite he as he sank his teeth into his fifth bread and meat i could eat a horse an drown his head off in coffee afterward saxon s mind had to all the young had told her and she completed a sort of general resume of the information my she exclaimed but we ve learned a lot an we ve sure learned one thing said an that is that this is no place for us with land a an acre an only twenty dollars in our pockets oh we re not going to stop here she hastened to say by ic the valley op the moon but just the same it s the that gave it its price and they make things go on it � send their children to school and have them and as you said yourself they re as fat as an i take my hat off to them responded but all the same i d sooner have forty acres at a hundred an acre than four at a an acre somehow you know i d be scared stiff on four acres � scared of off you know she was in full sympathy with him in her heart of hearts the forty acres much the harder in her way allowing for the difference of a generation her desire for was as strong as her uncle will s well we re not going to stop here she assured we re going in not for forty acres but for a hundred and sixty acres free from the government an i guess the government owes it to us for what our fathers an mothers done i tell you saxon when a woman walks across the plains like your mother done an a man an wife gets by the indians like my grandfather an mother done the government does owe them something well it s up to us to collect an we ll collect all right all right somewhere down in them mountains south of by ic chapter ii it was a good afternoon s tramp to passing through the town of hay wards yet saxon and found time to from the main county road and take the parallel roads through acres of intense cultivation where the land was to the wheel tracks saxon looked with amazement at these small brown who came to the soil with nothing and yet made the soil pay for itself to the tune of two hundred of five hundred and of a thousand dollars an acre on every hand was activity women and children were in the fields as well as men the land was turned over and over they seemed never to let it rest and it rewarded them it must reward them or their children would not be able to go to school nor would so many of them be able to drive by in or in stout light look at their faces saxon said they are happy and contented they haven t faces like the people in our neighborhood after the strikes began h sure they got a good thing agreed you can see it out all over them but they needn t get with me i can tell you that much � just because they ve us out of our land an everything but they re not showing any signs of saxon no they re not come to think of it all the same they ain t so wise i bet i could tell em a few about horses it was sunset when they entered the little town of who had been silent for the last half mile ventured a suggestion by ic the valley of the moon say i could put up for a room in the hotel just as well as not what d ye think but saxon shook her head emphatically how long do you think our twenty dollars will last at 