"I am afraid every girl he has feels the same way, and from what your father said yesterday, even the sons he favours don't feel any too good toward him." "You just bet they don't! They are every one as sore as boiled owls.
Pa said so, and he knows, for they all talk it over every time they meet.

He said they didn't feel like men, they felt like a lot of 'spanked school-boys.'" "They needn't worry," said Kate.

"Every deed is made out.

Father reads them over whenever it rains.

They'll all get their land when he dies.