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"I can't say I expect much of you not from the way you always been, up to now unless you turn over a new leaf, and I don't see any encouragement to think you're goin' to do THAT! If you go down there and show a spark o' real GIT-up, I reckon the whole office'll fall in a faint. But if you're ever goin' to show any, you better begin right at the beginning and begin to show it to-morrow."
And every time they have a fit, the people up at the office'll have another, and they'll pass it on to us." "But why do they want the marine leg?" she asked, "any more now than they did at first?" "They've got to get the wheat down by boat instead of rail, that's all. Or likely it'll be coming both ways. There's no telling now what's behind it. Both sides have got big men fighting.
And every time they have a fit, the people up at the office'll have another, and they'll pass it on to us." "But why do they want the marine leg?" she asked, "any more now than they did at first?" "They've got to get the wheat down by boat instead of rail, that's all. Or likely it'll be coming both ways. There's no telling now what's behind it. Both sides have got big men fighting.
"Mebbe he'll come back after his term of office is up." Mr. Jennings shook his head. "No, town life and office'll spoil 'im and then he'll get married. You'll never go back on the farm. Nobody ever does that gets away from it and learns how to get a livin' anywhere else." This melancholy sat strangely upon Mr. Jennings, who usually took things as they came with smiling resignation.
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