"So's horses and cows. Gimme folks that's got some public spirit in 'em. Think of the men that took up the land all round these parts when we come in--all full of Fourth of July. I wisht they hadn't been so keen to sell out at a profit--that's the worst of us Americans. When they sold out, of course the Germans come in,--couldn't blame 'em a mite,--an' Schmidt he come fust, an' he bejuggled all the rest. An' he's pretty nigh bejuggled the Gateses and two or three other American families like 'em, that's gettin' more like Schmidt year by year. Why, there ain't been a mite of public improvement done this ten year back."