All you've got to do is sign a lease, to pull thousands from the ground in oil, as the rest of us are doing all around you!" "Cut down Robert's trees!" shrieked Mrs.Comstock.

"Tear up his land! Cover everything with horrid, greasy oil! I'll die first." "You mean you'll let Elnora go like a beggar, and hurt and mortify her past bearing.

I've got to the place where I tell you plain what I am going to do.

Maggie and I went to town last night, and we bought what things Elnora needs most urgent to make her look a little like the rest of the high school girls.

Now here it is in plain English.