![]() SHERIFF: He was cheated right and left, too.ĬATTLEMAN: Harve never could have handled stock none.ĪRMY MAN: He didn’t have it in him to be sharp.ĬATTLEMAN: You remember when he bought Sander's mules for eight-year-olds, when everybody in town knew that Sander's father-in-law give 'em to his wife for a wedding present eighteen years before, an' they was full-grown mules then.ĬOAL-AND-LUMBER DEALER: Harve never was much account for anything practical. But the old man had to trust everything to tenants. SHERIFF: Never did hang togetherdid they?īANKER PHELPS: He spent money enough on Harve to stock a dozen cattle farms and he might as well have poured it into Sand Creek.īANKER ELDER: If Harve had stayed home, helped nurse what little they hadīANKER PHELPS: gone into stock on the old man's bottom farm, they might all have been well fixed. CHARACTERS ARMY MAN BANKER PHELPS BANKER ELDER SHERIFF CATTLEMAN COAL-AND-LUMBER DEALER RAILROAD MAN BOSTON MAN MINISTER LAWYER OTHER TOWNSPEOPLEĪRMY MAN: S'pose there'll be a will, Phelps?īANKER PHELPS: There'll scarcely be any need for one, will there?ĪRMY MAN: Why, the ole man says Harve's done right well lately.īANKER ELDER: I reckon he means by that Harve ain't asked him to mortgage any more farms lately so he could go on with his education.ĪRMY MAN: Seems like my mind don't reach back to a time when Harve wasn't bein' edycated.īANKER PHELPS: It's too bad the old man's sons didn't turn out better.
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