It's too long a haul to take the ore out, and it's too spotted to justify any great investment in machinery to handle it on the ground.

And," he added with an undernote of fierceness, "it's a terrible place for man or beast to stay in, unless the object to be attained is great enough to justify enduring the hardships." "You said a mouthful, Cash.

Well, can you leave your seven radishes and three hunches of lettuce and pull out--say at daybreak ?" Bud turned to him with some eagerness.
Cash grinned sourly.

"When it's time to go, seven radishes can't stop me.

No, nor a whole row of 'em--if there was a whole row." "And you watered 'em copiously too," Bud murmured, with the corners of his mouth twitching.