"Is he bad?" Mindy asked.
"I myself know of nothing very bad he's ever done, but according to the stories going around, he isn't good," Pete replied.
Mrs. Simpson said doubtfully, "Sometimes I wish we'd stayed in Missouri."
"This is no better and no worse than Missouri, Mrs. Simpson," Pete said respectfully.
"You said yourself that that man's a heathen."
"You will," Pete pointed out, "find them in Missouri, New York, or any other place you go."
"Say what you please, Pete, this is different from Missouri."
"Only because of the crowd gathered here. But ninety-five per cent of them are honest, hard-working, God-fearing people. They don't want a thing except a chance at some of the last good free land left in the country under control of the United States."
"How about the other five per cent?" Mrs. Simpson asked.
"Well," Pete said reluctantly, "I wouldn't want to cross that border without a gun."