I was merely telling the worst first.

We're going to win.

We nearly always win here in the West, but it seems to me the country is against us now.

This doesn't look much like the plains, Dick, with its big, deep rivers, its high bluffs along the banks, and its miles and miles of swamp or wet lowlands.

How wide would you say the Mississippi is here ?" "Somewhere between a mile and a mile and a half." "And they say it's two or three hundred feet deep.