27/32 How much better to have a park and plenty of money than to work in a ditch and make a railway! But he do not know the way with a woman. Perhaps he may be more at home, as you say, in the ditch. I should say to him, 'My friend, you will do well in de ditch if you work hard; suppose you stay there.'" "You don't seem to like my cousin, and, if you please, we will talk no more about him." "Why should I not like him? But this other man that come here to-day. He is a fool." "Very likely." "He did not learn his lesson without whipping." "Nor with whipping either." "No; he have learned nothing. |