human
Oh, shut up about them beans! implored Andy Green with a bored air.
gpt
It's water they want; and a touch of the hoe now and then. You leave 'em for a month at a time and then go back and wonder why you can't pick a hatful off 'em. Same as the rest of us have been ranching, he added ruefully, turning to Luck.
human
With the best intentions in the world, the Lord never meant us fellers for farmers, and that's a fact. We'll drop a hoe any time of day or night to get out riding after stock. Of course, we didn't take up our claims with the idea of settling down and riding a hoe handle the rest of our lives. If we had, I guess maybe we'd have done a little better at it.
gpt
We did what we started out to do, the Native Son pointed out lazily:
human
We saved the range--what little there is to save--and we kept a lot of poor yaps from starving to death on that land, didn't we? He smiled slowly.
gpt
If I hadn't gotten gay and planted those beans, he added,
human
I'd be feeling fine over it. A girl gave me a handful of pinto beans and asked me to plant them--I did hoe them, he defended tardily to Andy.
gpt
I hoed them the day before the Fourth. You know I did. Same time you hoed those lemon-colored spuds of yours.