It's a plaguey sight easier to begin to cut down and live economical in a place where nobody knows you than 'tis in one where everybody has known you for years.

See that, don't you ?" Jed whistled sadly, breaking off in the middle of a bar to reply that he didn't know as he did.
"I've never cut up, so cuttin' down don't worry me much," he observed.

"But I presume likely you're right, Sam; you generally are." He whistled a moment longer, his gaze apparently fixed upon a point in the middle of the white plastered ceiling.

Then he said, dreamily: "Well, anyhow, 'twon't be but a month.

They'll go somewheres else in a month." Captain Sam sniffed.