"What yuh mean, done ?" "Yes.

What have you done that they should put you up here and make you stay up here?
It sounds--" "Now, even a tourist knows that this is a Forest Service lookout station, and that I'm here to watch out for fires down below! I'm your guardian angel, young lady.

Treat me with respect, if not with kindness." "I'm a member of the no-treat reform club.

Honestly, don't they let you leave here at all ?" "Four days a month." He heaved a heavy sigh and waved his pipe toward the great outdoors.

"'S big world, when it's all spread out in sight," he volunteered.
"Can't you--can't you even go down to the lake and fish, when you want to ?" "Nope.