human
Why, ma'am, he said,
gpt
I tell ye, after coming over these plains, it is jest like lookin' into Heaven, to get a look down into that valley; it's as green as any medder land ye ever laid your eyes on; I've seen the grass there higher'n my knee, in July.
human
Oh! said Mrs. March, with a sigh of satisfaction at the very thought of it,
gpt
I would like to see tall grass once more.
human
Yes, indeed wife, said Mr. March;
gpt
It's the nicest bit of country there is anywhere in Colorado, said Billy,
human
Do you think there are any farms there that could be bought? asked Mr. March, anxiously.
gpt
I should think such desirable lands would be all taken up.
human
Well, they're changin' round there a good deal, said Billy.
gpt
Ye wouldn't think it; but men they git discontented a hearing so much talk about silver. They're always a hoping to get hold on a mine 'n' make a big fortin all in a minnit; but I hain't seen so many of these big fortins made off minin' 'n this country. For one man thet's made his fortin, I've known twenty that's lost it. Now I think on't I did hear, last spring, that Wilson he wanted to sell out; 'n' if you could get his farm, you'd jest be fixed first rate. There's the best spring o' water on his place there is in all the valley; and it ain't more'n four miles 'n' a half from his place up into Rosita: ye'd walk it easy.
human
It sounds perfectly delightful, Robert, she said;
gpt
H'm! he said,
human
A knave, I think, said Mrs. March.
gpt
He tried very hard to sell us the whole place.
human
I'll be bound he did, sneered Billy;
gpt
Say, mister, he continued,
human
Ah, Billy, is that it?
gpt
Well, yes, sir. We're a calculatin' to be married one o' these days soon's I get a little ahead. It's slow work, though, layin' up money teamin', 'n' I won't take her out of a good home till I can give her one o' her own's good. Her father he's foreman 'n one o' the mines there; 'n' he's always been a real forehanded man. She's well off: she's got no occasion to marry anybody to be took care of.
human
Sarah, what do you think of my going?
gpt
Go, by all means! said Mrs. March.
human
The little journey will do you good, even if nothing comes of it. We need not say any thing about the reason for your going, till you get back. If you decide to move down there, that will be time enough to explain.
gpt
And Mrs. Plummer will say that it was all 'providential,'
human
And so shall I, Robert,