. Stories of a country doctor . they think is will turn the team out to graze and he and his fam-ily will sit around a smoky log fire and fill up on thisstuff and speculate about the good things they are goingto have when they get to their destination and get asmuch enjoyment out of it as other people have in otherways. The Branch—Water Man is a hopeful creature. Heis always looking forward to something which he neverreaches; he is always expecting something to happenwhich never happens, and he is too lazy, ignorant andshiftless to make anything happen. He just waits and hopes. I nev
. Stories of a country doctor . they think is will turn the team out to graze and he and his fam-ily will sit around a smoky log fire and fill up on thisstuff and speculate about the good things they are goingto have when they get to their destination and get asmuch enjoyment out of it as other people have in otherways. The Branch—Water Man is a hopeful creature. Heis always looking forward to something which he neverreaches; he is always expecting something to happenwhich never happens, and he is too lazy, ignorant andshiftless to make anything happen. He just waits and hopes. I never knew one ofthose fellows to raise a crop of anything and save enough Thk Bkanch-Water Man. ^6i of it to have seed for another crop. They always begor buy seed in the spring. If he can not sell the cropbefore it matures, and nature is so bountiful and theseason so good that he raises more than he can use, hewill either let it go to waste, or he will keep his fencesso poorly that the neighbors stock will get in and eatit WAITING TO git IN TO HAUL. The next spring or the next autumn is too faraway for this man to consider anything in relation tothat time. What he wants, he wants right now ; whatdoes he care for next week or next month or next year? 162 The Branch-Watkr Man. His mind can not grasp things so far away in the dim,uncertain future. These people will often flock to the small towns inthe West with a view to gittin in to haul and willlive in the little shanties in the suburbs or along therailroad tracks and will haul lumber, dirt, rock, sand,wood and such things when they can get this kind ofwork to do. But the} will not work, until pushed to thelast extremity, unless they can use the pious and solemnold crow-bait team also. They will sit around on dry goods boxes on thecorners and in front of the stores, in their shirt sleevesand old flop brim hats and with green baize patches onthe rear of their pants, and seriously discuss matters ofgreat national concern abo
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