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"Oh, it's black, an' I hear they strip it off close ter ther ground. We don't get no shade like it in this part o' ther country. Ther only place what hez it is ther West, whar it's needed most." "But how about the Pecos?" "Sho! I almost fergot it, didn't I, while teachin' yer something erbout ther way they do things in Arizony an' her sister-in-law, Noo Mexico? Now I'm off, shore.
The old man chuckled. "Well, y' see, they was both courtin' Agnes then, an' my son cut William out. Then William he lit out f'r the West, Arizony 'r California 'r somewhere out West. Never been back sence." "Ain't, heh?" "No. But they say he's makin' a terrible lot o' money," the old man said in a hushed voice. "But the way he makes it is awful scaly.
I starts at the worst words the English langwidge and the range had produced, to date, and got steadily and rapidly worse as long as I talked. "Arizony may be slow in the matter of standing collars and rag-time, but she leads the world in profanity.
Arizony looks as though thar war a strike among the mechanics and it war never finished. This looks like it were finished once and then ther perprieter, not bein' satisfied with ther contractor's job, smashed it.
Gage, ma'am," said he, stepping up. "I'm sorry you got a cinder in your eye. We'll go up and see the doctor. Why, I had a cinder onct in my eye, time I was going down to Arizony, and it like to of ruined me. I couldn't see nothing for nearly four days." He was lying now, rather fluently and beautifully.
"Well, you see, this old feller, Pop Haynes, he'd been down in Arizony twenty years before, and he said there was lots of gold out there in the desert. Well, we got a team hooked up, and a little flour and bacon, and we did start now, I'll leave it to you, Wid, if we didn't. We got as far as Big Springs, on the railroad. What did we hear then?
And you know onct I was just on the point of starting out fer Arizony with that old miner, Pop Haynes do you suppose I'd struck anything if I'd of went down there?" "Nobody can say if you would or you wouldn't," replied Wid. "Fact is, you never got more'n half started."
Ah've ben a hired man and worked on a ranch all mah life, but now Ah've got a bit saved up Ah kin go to the city and pick th' gal Ah wants. "And lem'me tell yuh, John! In the Movies them gals what looks so pritty make fine farm-wives. Gosh, but one city gal with yaller curls hadn't a cent to live on when she met a feller what owned a little ranch in Arizony.
Why, news comes up from down in Arizony that a railroad has went out into the desert, and that them mines has been discovered. What's the use then fer us to start fer Arizony with a wagon and team? Like enough all the good stakes would be took up before we could get there. Old Pop and me, we just turned back, allowing it was the sensiblest thing to do." "And you been in around here ever since."
She merely inquired further: "Is he to have it washed with soap, maw?" "He shore is. Any one would think you had been born and raised in Arizony or Nebrasky, to hear you talk. I’m plumb ashamed of you, Judy." "But, ’deed, maw, I ain’t big enough to wash his face with soap. It takes Topeka to hold his head."
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