human
How many of those plants you got, Bud?
gpt
Two hundred.
human
What'd you pay for 'em?
gpt
Forty dollars.
human
Twenty cents each for those piddling little plants?
gpt
I could have had good plants for less, Bud said,
human
I mind the time Mother and me picked your first pen of chickens. We might have had some real good ones for half what yours cost. But Mother said 'Delbert Bennett! If we're going to give that boy chickens for Christmas, let's give him the best or none!' Now danged if they ain't running all over the farm.
gpt
Are you sorry?
human
Oh, I could have done the same thing, Gramps said casually.
gpt
Matter of fact, I was thinking about it. Will say, though, that the more you put in at the beginning the more you're like to take out at the end, and Joe Demarest usually knows what he's talking about. I expect your berries will do right well if drought don't get 'em, or flood rains don't wash 'em out, or somebody's cattle don't trample 'em, or any of a couple dozen other things don't happen to 'em.
human
How long do you figure on being busy, Bud?
gpt
I'm not sure, Bud said.
human
I may be busy all morning.