"Listen! I was over in France: it's a good thing them Dutchmen never thought of it; we'd of had to quit!" Adams laughed, and went back to his sheds.

"I guess my foreman was right," he told his wife, that evening, with a little satisfaction.
"As soon as one man shows enterprise enough to found an industry in a broken-down neighbourhood, somebody else is sure to follow.

I kind of like the look of it: it'll help make our place seem sort of more busy and prosperous when it comes to getting a loan from the bank--and I got to get one mighty soon, too.

I did think some that if things go as well as there's every reason to think they OUGHT to, I might want to spread out and maybe get hold of that old factory myself; but I hardly expected to be able to handle a proposition of that size before two or three years from now, and anyhow there's room enough on the lot I got, if we need more buildings some day.

Things are going about as fine as I could ask: I hired some girls to-day to do the bottling--coloured girls along about sixteen to twenty years old.