"Good-bye, pard."

"Stop in, Bill, and see me when you come by my place," said I.

"You bet," said he.

And he did, the next day, and I showed him off to Harriet, who brought
him a plate of her best doughnuts and asked him about his mother.

Yesterday I saw him again careering by in the truck. The job was
finished. He waved his hand at me.

"I'm off," said he.

"Where?" I shouted.

"Canada."



CHAPTER XIV


ON LIVING IN THE COUNTRY

"Why risk with men your hard won gold*?
Buy grain and sow your Brother Dust
Will pay you back a hundred fold--
The earth commits no breach of trust."