'Yes,' said I, 'for you say in the Lord's Prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread."' 'Si, senor,' he says, 'but we do not expect it till to-morrow!' The Padre knew from the start, but I learned at great expense, and went out of business--closed up shop for ever, with a bald head and my Tips for the Tired.

Well, I've had more out of it all, I guess, than if I'd trebled the millions and wiped Manana off the Mexican coat of arms." "You think it would be like that here ?" David asked abstractedly.
Lacey whistled.

"There the Government was all right and the people all wrong.

Here the people are all right and the Government all wrong.

Say, it makes my eyes water sometimes to see the fellah slogging away.