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could have done it but you

"That’s it. And everybody in the country thought I was a damn fool. Only damn fools and lazy men took rangers’ jobs those days. But I hung on because I believed in it. And now I got the best job in the bunch. In place of being looked down on as that old fool John, […]

just to look around

"We’re savin’ the People’s property, and keepin’ it in good shape," he argued to himself, "and that’s sure the main point. If we take care of things, we’ve done the main job. Let the other fellows do the heavy figgerin’. The city’s full of cheap bookkeepers who can’t do nothing else." Part 3 Chapter 25 […]

Because if it ain’t you’d better

This studied respect for his superior officer on the Supervisor’s part encouraged Brent to deliver from time to time rather priggish little homilies on the way to run a Forest. California John listened, but with a sardonic smile concealed beneath his sun-bleached moustache. After a little, however, Brent became more inclined to bring home the […]

noticed them one way or another

But when evening came, and the end of the month, Supervisor Davidson always found himself in trouble. Then he sat down before his typewriter, on which he pecked methodically with the rigid forefinger of his right hand. Naturally slow of thought when confronted by blank paper, the mechanical limitations put him far behind in his […]

and carried it to the light

The old man tore open the long official envelope, when he received it from Martin’s hand, and carried it to the light, where he adjusted precisely his bowed spectacles, and, in his slow, methodical way, proceeded to investigate the contents. As he caught sight of the word and its initials his hand involuntarily closed to […]