But somehow I'd rather do farm work of some sort.

It seems less of a slump, when a chap is down on his luck, than to go in for scrubbing or for section-gang hustling.

There are farms and citrus groves, all along here, just back of the bay.

And I'm looking for one of them where I can get a decent day's work to do and a decent day's wages for doing it." He spoke with an almost overdone earnestness.

The girl was watching him, attentively, a furrow between her straight brows.