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Until last year he had good luck renting; then cotton fell, and the sheriff seized and sold all he had. So he moved here, where the rent is higher, the land poorer, and the owner inflexible; he rents a forty-dollar mule for twenty dollars a year. Poor lad! a slave at twenty-two. This plantation, owned now by a foreigner, was a part of the famous Bolton estate.
"'There's a way you can both get back, he says to the chicken. "'When I sell out, says she, 'it'll be to a real man for real money, not to a cheap ham-fat for a forty-dollar job. "The chicken won't stay at the hotel where the bunch is that night, so we both moves over to another. When we pays our bill I have seven bucks left 'n' she has six.
She had to have a foreman for the ranch, and hanged if she didn't pick on me! Think of that; me an ordinary, forty-dollar cow puncher! I tried to tell her that it was all plumb foolishness, that running a big cattle ranch was a man-sized job and took experience, but she wouldn't listen. Women are like that.
It was a distinct annoyance to him that Tom Harbison should lean far out of the back of the car and wave his forty-dollar panama hat at Judith Buck's retreating figure, and even a greater annoyance that Judith should turn around when she got to the brow of the hill and see the fine hat doing obeisance to her. Cousin Ann Looks Backward Mildred was right.
"You're playing a high hand for a forty-dollar man," he grated, "and you've about reached your limit. The stakes are beyond your reach, my friend." Chip went white with anger at the thrust, which struck deeper than Dunk knew. But he stood his ground. "Ye es? Wait till the cards are all turned." It turned him sick, though, the emptiness of the boast.
On a sunny day she often sent the maids driving in her car, and if a blizzard came up she was certain to ask them to walk downtown to match yarn for her, not even offering car fare. She would borrow small sums and stamps from them and deliberately forget to pay them back, at the same time giving her cook a forty-dollar hat because it made her own self look too old.
Also, you are expected, at all times and places, to anticipate my wants and fall over yourselves waiting on me. You're just common, ordinary, forty-dollar cow-punchers, and if I treat yuh white, it's because I pity yuh for not being up where I am. Remember, vassals, that I'm your superior, mentally, morally, socially "
"'Oh, a ten-dollar hoss and a forty-dollar saddle' that's you Blue. You don't amount to nothing nohow, doing jackrabbit stunts like that when I'm not looking! 'Coma ti yi youpy, youpy-a." She watched a cloud shadow sweep like a great bird over a sunny slope and murmured while she watched: "Cloud-boats sailing sunny seas is that original, or have I cribbed it from some honest-to-goodness poet?
Climate like that gets on a white man's nerves; he needs physical discomfort to make him contented. I'd give a forty-dollar dog to be good and cold and freeze my nose. Why, Doctor Gorgas has made us so sanitary that we can't even get sick. I'd hail an epidemic as a friend. "It's even harder on the women folks, for they can't find anything to kick about, so they fuss with one another and with us.
So you and Sis have undertaken to live in a forty-dollar apartment on a twenty-five-dollar salary, have you?" "That's what it looks like, sir," says Mallory. "And who is the financial genius that is to manage this enterprise?" says he. "Why," says Skid, "Mrs. Mallory, I suppose. We have agreed that she should." "Sis, eh?" says the Senator, smilin' kind of grim.
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