A Thousand a Plate

Written in 1922 this story is by the Canadian author Arthur Chisholm. As the story opens two men, Bill Hutchins and Sam Dobbs, are asking the local storekeeper for credit for winter supplies. He is arguing that they had a bag of gold dust in the summer and should not need credit. The men argue that they are going to a rich hunting ground to trap 'fur' which they will give to the storekeeper as payment in the Spring.