Keeping up two establishments is harder than keeping up one.

You have a home here partly paid for, and a big garden that helps support that home.

It is better for you to stick with this establishment and work at half time in the mill than to roam around at big expense seeking full time in some other mill.

There may be no mill in the land that is running full time." This had not occurred to him.

What lay beyond the hills was all mystery.
But we young fellows had been brought up in the American atmosphere, we had read the Youth's Companion and the newspapers, and our outlook was widened; we could guess that conditions were the same in other states as they were in our part of Pennsylvania, for we were studying economic causes.
"It is better for you to stay here and wait for good times to come again.