Sinclair Lewis: Main Street

20. CHAPTER XX (continued)

"I'll be a big farmer before you can bat an eye! I tell you that young fellow Olaf is going to go East to college along with the Haydock kids. Uh---- Lots of folks dropping in to chin with Bea and me now. Say! Ma Bogart come in one day! She was---- I liked the old lady fine. And the mill foreman comes in right along. Oh, we got lots of friends. You bet!"