Miss Hallman, you'll have one sweet time proving that we ain't bona fide settlers.

We're just crazy to make homes for ourselves.

We think it's time we settled down--and we're settling here because we're used to this country.

We're real sorry you didn't find it necessary to pay your folks for the fun of pointing out the land to us and steering us to the land office--but we can't help that.

We needed the money to buy plows." He looked at her full with his honest, gray eyes that could so deceive his fellow men--to say nothing of women.