Wa! he say to us right out of his bed dollar-fifty or starve! Why should we wait till he get well?
He does not wait!" Another man, a burly, purple-cheeked son of earth, took up the harangue at the point where Jean Bateese dropped it.

This was Jack Mackenzie, Simon said.
"Me, I am sick of waiting, too!" he cried.

"Always we wait, and John Gaviller do what he like! Why he put down the price of grain?
Why he do everything?
It is to keep us in his debt.

We can work till our backs break, but he fix it so we are still in debt.
"Because we can do not'ing when we are in his debt.

We are his slaves! We got to break our slave chains.