Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"If I could only hope so," Billy said fervently. "But I don't
care if I owned ten thousand acres, any man hikin' with his
blankets might be just as good a man as me, an' maybe better, for
all I'd know. I'd give 'm the benefit of the doubt, anyway."


Billy asked for work, at first, indiscriminately, later, only at
the larger farms. The unvarying reply was that there was no work.
A few said there would be plowing after the first rains. Here and
there, in a small way, dry plowing was going on. But in the main
the farmers were waiting.

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