"Don't call it to mind, but maybe I have. Maybe I have. Anyhow, I calc'late it's true."
"There you be, Marvin. Now it behooves a man that's looked up to for to keep in the lead. Ought to look into that seeder, Marvin. Folks'll say: 'Marvin Towne's got him one of them seeders. Darn progressive farmer. Gits him all the modern improvements.'"
"Suthin' in what you say, Scattergood. Calculate I might examine into that tool one of these days."
"Hain't much choice between Pazzy Cox and Jim Allen, eh? Hain't neither of 'em desirable lawmakers, eh? That what you was sayin'?"
"Them's my idees," said Marvin.
"Too bad we're forced to take one or t'other. Now if they was some way for you to step in and run."
"Hain't."
"Sh'u'd think you'd look over them Prohibitionists. Draw all the best citizens after you. Set a example to the state.... Step back and look at that there seeder, Marvin."
Marvin looked at the seeder judicially. "Calc'late to guarantee it, Scattergood?"
"Put it in writin'," said Scattergood.