They are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free from drunkenness, and they are as industrious as the day is long.

Owing to the low price offered for chittims bark the amount peeled in Oregon and Washington this year is limited.

mind-numbingly tedious work

Go on, lay me right here as I lay now; but I'll rize agen you, and the day'll come when you'd give every dollar ye're worth to dig me up, and give me life agen."