I took a good square look at that sunflower, and then I really did hand in my resignation.Narrator
What a man mostly sees in this land of the tenderfoot is the beauty of Colorado; its parks and mountains, its hot springs and grassy valleys.Narrator
The valley is full of insects – every kind, from the destructive grasshopper down – and the grass is of a deathly sort, and bears no fruit, either in the blade or ear.Narrator
The 'foot-rot' and the 'gull' take hold of it and keep it down.Narrator
The turnip was mere vegetable matter, dead and useless, save that the 'scab' had attacked it and made it unfit for swine.Narrator
The 'colorado beetle' had paid his frequent visit and made it impossibly rotten.Narrator
I had learned something of the deceptiveness of farming in a drouthy time, and the non-productiveness of a country where it costs $75 an acre to raise $40 worth of produce.Narrator
The editor was one of those men who must poke their humor into you for your own good.Narrator
It hurts your feelings every time, and never seems to mellow with age.Narrator
I knew enough to realize that it was from the land that all wealth comes.Narrator
He had that pathetic, hunted look in his eyes that always touches me.Narrator