... he’s taken that little store near the three creeks, he's back his old tricks, they say. Boot legging! And if it’s that—and Mr Arbuthnott is in with him—” “What is boot-legging?” Fiona asked dully. The baby had moved, and she had changed his position tenderly ...

... wilds of Canada. There Ted, who has never had much stability of character, becomes idle, and takes to drink, evil ways, and boot-legging (selling whisky unlawfully). He and Fiona quarrel, and, when not himself, he upsets the cradle in which the baby is ...