They're generally worst when the crop is poor." "Do you think the crop will be poor ?" Sadie glanced at the sky, which was a dazzling blue, flooded with light, except where the scattered clouds drove by.
"We didn't get the June rains, and the frost-damp has gone down pretty deep.

Then we have had very few thunder-storms, and the sand is blowing bad.

It makes trouble in parts of Manitoba, but the scrub trees in our sand-hills generally hold it up.

What does Steve think ?" "He hasn't told me.

Sometimes he looks anxious, but he doesn't talk about it much." "That's Steve's way.