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Updated: June 19, 2025
"I know what I mean," said Mrs. Starling, "and I commonly say it. That is, when I say anything. I don't wish anything about Josiah. I've given up wishin'. He's an unaccountable boy. There's no dependin' on him. And the thing is, he don't care. All he thinks on is his own victuals; and so long's he has 'em, he don't care whether the rest of the world turns round or no."
You are doing all, and more than any one else would do for me, and I will accept nothing further." "You're figgerin' wrong," he retorted quite harshly. "'Tain't fer you. No, no, it's fer him. Y' see we're kind o' dependin' on him, Arizona an' me " "What for?" the girl asked quietly. "Wal, y' see wal it's like this. He's goin' to be a rancher.
Farrington," Nellie responded, "and what would you think if anyone made such a proposition to Eudora as you have made to me?" "Oh, that's a different question." "And in what way?" "Oh, Eudora will hev money, an' will not be left penniless, while you an' yer father are jist dependin' upon the parish." "Yes, I know it only too well," Nellie bitterly answered.
Naterally the scared oaks didn't take no interest in shootin' up, when they thought they was so soon t' be eaten, so they got the habit of crouchin' low an' dependin' on the poplars fur information. They got a notion, too, of turnin' away from the sea. Sort o' sot their faces agin it, so t' speak.
He'd made sly talk, you see, about my electin' to leave the farm and go 'long some o' my own folks; but" and she whispered this carefully "he didn't give me no chance to stay there without hurtin' my pride and dependin' on him. I ain't said that to many folks, but all must have suspected.
"'T has been my way, as you know, to think out things beforehand, but it come to the very last before I could give it up 'bout your mother's gettin' better; an' when I did give up, 't wa'n't so I could think o' anything. An' here's your aunts got their families dependin' on 'em, and wantin' to git away soon as may be. I don't know which way to look."
"I done well with it, if I wasn't nothin' but a woman with four dependin' on me an' no means," said Mercy proudly as she came in full sight of the old place. It was a long drive from one farm to the other by roundabout highways, but there was a footpath known to the wayfarer which took a good piece off the distance. "Now, ain't this a sight better than them hustlin' fairs?"
"O Lord!" He wondered if he was to be the tortured witness of another grim encounter. But his companion waved his hand reassuringly. "Oh, I'm not goin' t' die yit! There too much dependin' on me fer me t' die yit. No, sir! Nary die! I CAN'T! Ye'd oughta see th' swad a' chil'ren I've got, an' all like that."
"I'm plumb busted," said he frankly, "and that's the reason I couldn't chip in. I couldn't buy fleas for a dawg. I'm afraid you didn't win much." The preacher looked gloomily at a nickle and a ten-cent piece. "Dependin' on this sort of thing to get along?" asked California John. "Yes," said the preacher. The woman looked out of the window.
"You know I ain't any good any more, and you got a whole family, includin' an Englishman, dependin' on you we'll throw him on the town, though, if he don't take out his first papers the minute I get there." His last shot from the rear platform was: "Change your name back to 'Pete, son, when you get west of Chicago. 'Tain't anything fancy, but it's a crackin' good business name fur a hustler!"
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