"In the meantime, we want them off the ground before we clean up the pieces the boys have slashed.

One gets at this kind of work in winter when nothing much can be done, and I must be ready to break new soil for planting in the spring." "You are spending a good deal of money," Mrs.Farnam interrupted.

"You haven't been paid for the last shipments to England yet." "Mabel's cautious," Farnam remarked to Agatha.

"She's a pretty good business woman, but doesn't understand that the more you spend on your job the more you get.

Anyhow, you ought to get more, but I admit you're sometimes badly stung." Then he turned to his wife.