Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Well, you won't be a hundred years old before I do. Straight
from here I hike to Payne an' bind the bargain--an option, you
know, while title's searchin' an' I 'm raisin' money. We'll
borrow that four hundred back again from Gow Yum, an' I'll borrow
all I can get on my horses an' wagons, an' Hazel and Hattie, an'
everything that's worth a cent. An' then I get the deed with a
mortgage on it to Hilyard for the balance. An' then--it's takin'
candy from a baby--I'll contract with the brickyard for twenty
cents a yard--maybe more. They'll be crazy with joy when they see
it. Don't need any borin's. They's nearly two hundred feet of it
exposed up an' down. The whole knoll's clay, with a skin of soil
over it."