She was very sweet and sensible, and Bud was very tender with her.

But she could not budge him from his determination to go and make his way without a Birnie dollar to ease the beginning.

Other men had started with nothing and had made a stake, and there was no reason why he could not do so.
"Dad put it straight enough, and it's no good arguing.

I'd starve before I'd take anything from him.

I'm entitled to my clothes, and maybe a horse or two for the work I've done for him while I was growing up.