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"Peden was the guts of this town; it can't never be what it was without him. So you're goin' to leave the country, air you?" "Yes." "Give up that fool notion you had about raising wheat out here on this pe-rairie, heh?" "Gave it up," Morgan replied, nodding in his solemn, expressive way. "Well, you got some sense hammered into you, anyhow.
It'd suit me right up to the han'le if this feller could bring a rain, for I tell you I never saw so much sufferin' and misery as these settlers are goin' through out here on this cussid pe-rairie right now. Some of these folks is haulin' water from the river as much as thirty mile!" "I notice all the creeks and branches are dry.
"No," said Tom, when she mentioned that, "it ain't the kind of news the cattlemen spreads around. But if we shoot one of them in defendin' our own, the news runs like a pe-rairie fire. They call us rustlers, and come ridin' up to swipe us out. Well, they's goin' to be a change."
They come in by freight trainload, cars of horses and cattle, and machinery for farmin', from back there in Ohio and Indiany and Ellinoi all over that country where things a man plants in the ground grows up and comes to something. They went into this pe-rairie and started a bustin' it up like the ones ahead of 'em did.
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