Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


"'You, you mean, Mr. Forrest,' Smith stuttered, 'that, that I'm to go
down the hill?' 'That is just what I mean, Mr. Smith. You are to go
down the hill, not because you climbed over another man's fence--
that's your business and his; but because you were guilty of causing a
disturbance that is an impairment of ranch efficiency.'


"Do you know, Evan," Paula broke in on her recital, "Dick can nose
more human tragedy out of columns of ranch statistics than can the
average fiction writer out of the whirl of a great city. Take the milk
reports--the individual reports of the milkers--so many pounds of
milk, morning and night, from cow so-and-so, so many pounds from cow
so-and-so. He doesn't have to know the man. But there is a decrease in
the weight of milk. 'Mr. Parkman,' he'll say to the head dairyman, 'is
Barchi Peratta married?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Is he having trouble with his
wife?' 'Yes, sir.'

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