Mary (bringing food from stove and sitting down opposite)
Here we are, Jim. Guess you're ready for something. It takes a man to sprout a patch o' locusts, and you had breakfast by lamplight.
Jim
Some o' them roots seemed as long as from here to the barn.
Mary
But you'll have the best pasture in the county next year.
Jim
What's the good? We rationed our beef steers the way that government chap taught us, and our pigs, and our sheep, and who got the profit?
Mary