Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"I'd like to give you a couple of days' work," the old man
regretted, at parting, "but I can't see it. The ranch just about
keeps me and the old woman, now that the children are gone. An'
then it don't always. Seems times have been bad for a long spell
now. Ain't never been the same since Grover Cleveland."

Early in the afternoon, on the outskirts of San Jose, Saxon
called a halt.