It don't set good.

We see lots o' people that don't have to be slaves.

They own their land an' they ain't worked any harder than we have or been any more savin'.

That's why I say we can't pay the rents no more an' ye mustn't try to make us.

By hokey nettie! You'll have trouble if ye do." The truth had flashed upon me out of the words of this simple man.