34/141 It's coming spring, and you feel it; but the doctor says you're all right. I stopped in, on the way up, and he says so." "I reckon he don't know everything," the old woman persisted: "I've been runnin' down ever since we left Moffitt, and I didn't feel any too well there, even. It's a very strange thing, Jacob, that the richer you git, the less you ain't able to stay where you want to, dead or alive." "It's for the children we do it," said Dryfoos. "We got to give them their chance in the world." "Oh, the world! They ought to bear the yoke in their youth, like we done. I know it's what Coonrod would like to do." Dryfoos got upon his feet. |