It made him sick to hear the clack that went on about the gas the whole while, and that stirred up the neighborhood and got into his family.

Whenever he'd hear of a man that had been offered a big price for his land and was going to sell out and move into town, he'd go and labor with him and try to talk him out of it, and tell him how long his fifteen or twenty thousand would last him to live on, and shake the Standard Oil Company before him, and try to make him believe it wouldn't be five years before the Standard owned the whole region.
"Of course, he couldn't do anything with them.

When a man's offered a big price for his farm, he don't care whether it's by a secret emissary from the Standard Oil or not; he's going to sell and get the better of the other fellow if he can.

Dryfoos couldn't keep the boom out of has own family even.

His wife was with him.