"Now, Dorindy, she's a good, pious woman.
She believes the Powers above order everything.

If that's so, then ain't it sacrilegious to be all the time flyin' in the face of them Powers by rakin' and rakin' and dustin' and dustin'?
That's the question." "But, according to that reasoning," I observed, "we should neither rake nor dust.

Wouldn't that make our surroundings rather uncomfortable, after a while ?" "Sartin.

But when they got uncomfortable then we could turn to and make 'em comfortable again.

I ain't arguin' against work--needful work, you understand.