CHAPTER XI.

SELF-RELIANCE OF THE COLONISTS.

The Man With the Hoe--"Grandpa" Withee Able to Take Care of Himself--Not Dead, but Very Much Alive--A Pugnacious Old Man--Mr. Withee Shoots Chickens and Defies the Authorities--Big Jack McCauley and His "Influence"--"Albany" and the Mosquitoes--Arrival of Third _Yarmouth_--Arnold Mollenhauer--John A. Connell--S. W. Storm--The First School and Its Teacher 143