Wouldn't you ?" Philip stared out into the darkness of the court and answered honestly: "I don't know." There was a short pause.

Then he asked: "Can't you get work ?" It was a hopeless question to put to a man in a town of over two thousand idle men.

The answer was what he knew it would be: "Work! Can I pick up a bushel of gold in the street out there?
Can a man get work where there ain't any ?" "What have you been doing ?" "I was fireman in the Lake Mills.

Good job.

Lost it when they closed down last winter." "What have you been doing since ?" "Anything I could get." "Are you a married man ?" The question affected the other strangely.