"There would 'a' been," said her husband, testily. "There would 'a' been if the Americans had kept on. To think of them beginning to sell out and move furder west--just as they were gettin' their land into shape for havin' some time to themselves to improve things! Thank goodness, they _did_ put up the church and schoolhouse--I guess we'd never have had neither if it wasn't for the American spirit here when this settlement begun."