... But liars figure ...!
"And this keeps us from getting a research grant in physics? What did our progenitors do, anyway? Get hung for being horse thieves?"
"No criminal activities were reported by your people, but there is a record of singular restlessness and dissatisfaction with established conditions."
"What did they do?"
"They were constantly on the move, for the most part. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they were primarily pioneers, frontiersmen, settlers of new country. But when the country was established they usually packed up and went somewhere else. Rovers, trappers, unsettled people."
"This is not good?" Fenwick glanced at the chart that was open now. It was almost uncolored.
"I regret to say that such people are not classed as the stable element of communities," said Baker. "We cannot evaluate the index of hereditary accomplishment for the Clearwater faculty very high."
"It appears that our grandpas were among those generally given credit for getting things set up," said Fenwick.