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Bennington went faithfully to the Rock for four days During whole

afternoons he sat there looking out over the Bad Lands At sunset he

returned to caathered dust

Letters ho was left to the capable

hands of Old Mizzou until, ned his position

The samples lay in neatly tied coffee sacks just outside the door The

tabulations and statistics only needed copying to prepare them for the

capitalist's eye The inforri into shape

as a letter to make them valuable to the Eastern owner of the property

Anybody could do that

Old Mizzou explained these things to Bennington

"You-all does this jes's well's I," he said "You expresses them

samples East, so as they kin assay 'em; an' you sends them notes and

statistics Then all they is to do is to pay th' rest of the boys when

th' money rolls in That ain't none of ton objected

"That coht I aims to live yere in the cait started when you-all aims to do

th' work"

"What do you want to quit for, then? If you live here, you may as well