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Later, in the dining car, the steward sly answered her question:

"This is Kansas, and those green fields out there are the wheat that

feeds the nation"

Carley was not impressed The color of the short wheat appeared soft and

rich, and the boundless fields stretched away monotonously She had

not known there was so ht be a fine country for autoot back to her

seat she drew the blinds down and read herof

that, she went back to the observation car Carley was accusto attention, and did not resent it, unless she was annoyed

The train evidently had a full coers, who, as far as

Carley could see, were people not of her station in life The glare from

the many s, and the rather crass interest of several men, drove

her back to her own section There she discovered that some one had

drawn up hershades Carley promptly pulled them down and settled

herself comfortably Then she heard a woht people traveled west to see the country" And a man replied,

rather dryly "Wal, not always" His coirl

was hed and replied: "Martha,

you're shore behind the tiazines"