(_He comes forward and looks off in the direction from which he came as though he were expecting someone_)
A sort of luck, you see, this getting on.
Yes; if a man's rich He couldn't help but be. There's some old lamp, An heirloom in his family, that he rubs. And if he's poor, 'Hard luck.'
I don't know what the country's coming to.
I suppose. Captain, will you get my overcoat?
(_Haskell, who with the Chauffeur has been looking through the glasses, goes into the mill-yard. A number of militiamen who have been hanging around the gate gather about Anderson and they are soon having a good time together_)
What do they care for Country or for Art, Or any of the higher things of life? 'Give us this day our daily trade.' We live, We manufacturers, to fill their tills.
They're sowing dragons' teeth and they don't know it.
You'll see them to-morrow when I start the mill; They'll tip their hats when I pass through the streets. And you could comb the town: they never heard of Any petition to the Governor, Nor any contributions, not a one. They're all staunch friends of mine, and always have been. 'Why, Colonel Egerton, he built this town, Our leading citizen.' I'll get them though.
If you could shut down for a season, say.
That's just what I've been wanting to do, Chadbourne. Unfortunately, just now we're in a place Where we can't do as we would like to do; Or rather Jergens is.
(_The militiamen laugh out at some story Anderson is telling them_)
So I can't strike them without striking him.
I'll show them though that J. D. don't forget.
(_He starts for the mill-yard. With a wave of his hand he orders the militiamen back through the gate_)
And we charging up that Hill As if we didn't know what canned beef was, We, when we'd had slow elk[*] out on the plains.
(_Egerton goes rear to the Chauffeur and himself adjusts the glasses to his eyes_)
Where the big rock hangs On the south slope up yonder.
(_Dicey, King, and Masters come from the mill-yard, followed by Jergens. Dicey is dividing money with his companions_)
(_The three men go out around the corner right. Jergens joins Egerton and the Chauffeur. Harvey Anderson watches them in silence_)
And that's another reason I came down To hear those cannon boom and see those flags. You'll have a band play too?