5/22 There's just one thing in the world that'll wake the sleepiest young man alive up--yes, and make him JUMP up--and I don't care who he is or how sound asleep it looks like he is. That's when he takes it into his head to pick out some girl and settle down and have a home and chuldern of his own. THEN, I guess, he'll go out after the money! You'll see. I've known dozens o' cases, and so've you--moony, no-'count young men, all notions and talk, goin' to be ministers, maybe or something; and there's just this one thing takes it out of 'em and brings 'em right down to business. Well, I never could make out just what it is Bibbs wants to be, really; doesn't seem he wants to be a minister exactly--he's so far-away you can't tell, and he never SAYS--but I know this is goin' to get him right down to common sense. |