‘Well, they have to wait a long time.’
‘I fear so. But how is trade at Sloville?’
‘Why, just now very bad.’
‘Shall I tell you one reason?’
‘Just as you please; only, whatever you say I shall report to the United Buffaloes.’
‘Well, I don’t want to go out of my way to offend them, especially since they all vote together. But you had a strike here last summer, had you not?’
‘Yes, and a pretty time of it we had.’
‘It is over now, and what is the result?’
‘Why, that we are going on pretty much as usual.’
‘Not exactly. That strike cost a lot of money.’