"That ain't what put you in for train captain.

It was your blamed impatience.

Some of them lower Ioway men, them that first nominated you in the train meeting--town meeting--what you call it, they seen where you'd been plowing along here just to keep your hand in.

One of them says to me, 'Plowing, hey?
Can't wait?
Well, that's what we're going out for, ain't it--to plow ?' says he.

'That's the clean quill,' says he.