Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"He wants us to come back all right. D'ye know what he said to
me, Saxon t He gave me a letter to some guy that's down on the
government land--some poet that's holdin' down a quarter of a
section--so we'll be able to stop there, which'll come in handy
if the big rains catch us. An'--Oh! that's what I was drivin' at.
He said he had a little shack he lived in while the house was
buildin'. The Iron Man's livin' in it now, but he's goin' away to
some Catholic college to study to be a priest, an' Hall said the
shack'd be ours as long as we wanted to use it. An' he said I
could do what the Iron Man was doin' to make a livin'. Hall was
kind of bashful when he was offerin' me work. Said it'd be only
odd jobs, but that we'd make out. I could help'm plant potatoes,
he said; an' he got half savage when he said I couldn't chop
wood. That was his job, he said; an' you could see he was
actually jealous over it."

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