She was just a girl then, an' I was only a kid, punchin' steers for a livin'.

I suppose we've seen about as hard times as anybody.

At least that's what they would be called now.

But, hell, _we_ didn't think nothin' of it then; we was happy, sir, and we've been happy for over forty year.

I tell you, sir, we've lived--just lived every minute, and that's a blamed sight more than a lot of these higher-cultured, top-lofty, half-dead couples that marry and separate, and separate and marry again now-a-days can say.
"No, sir, 'tain't what a man gets that makes him rich; it's what he keeps.