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Why?

I don’t know, there was things to do, and you did ’em.

And some one to tell you what to do?

Maybe that ’s it, somebody that knew better ’n I did. It galled me at first, but pretty soon we got over in France, an’ I saw we was really doin’ something, then I did n’t mind. I just got to doin’ what I was told, and it worked out all right.

You liked France, too?

Yes.

I ’d like to hear you tell about it.

Maybe I ’ll go back there some time. I don’t know as I ’d mind farming a place over there. Most of their farms are awful little, but I don’t know but what I ’d like it.

Farming is farming. Why not try it here?

Look out there! (He points out of the window at the drifted snow) It ’s like that half the year, froze up, everything, most of all the people. Just a family by itself, maybe. Just a few folks, good an’ bad, month after month, with nothin’ to think about but just the mean little things, that really don’t