Some of these days I'm goin'
to take a trip, and have a little change. I'd like to see
Chicago, and as far west as the middle, anyway."
"Well, ye canna go," said Dannie. "Ye mind the time when ye were
married, and I thought I'd be best away, and packed my trunk?
When ye and Mary caught me, ye got mad as fire, and she cried,
and I had to stay. Just ye try going, and I'll get mad, and Mary
will cry, and ye will stay at home, juist like I did."
There was a fear deep in Dannie's soul that some day Jimmy would
fulfill this long-time threat of his. "I dinna think there is ony
place in all the world so guid as the place ye own," Dannie said
earnestly. "I dinna care a penny what anybody else has, probably
they have what they want. What _I_ want is the land that my
feyther owned before me, and the house that my mither kept. And
they'll have to show me the place they call Eden before I'll give
up that it beats Rainbow Bottom--Summer, Autumn, or Winter. I
dinna give twa hoops fra the palaces men rig up, or the thing
they call `landscape gardening'. When did men ever compete with
the work of God? All the men that have peopled the earth since
time began could have their brains rolled into one, and he would
stand helpless before the anatomy of one of the rats in these
bags.
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