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262 Lenox Robinson
heath. Jack Hurley s notion of the country is
that of most city people : nature is beautiful, the
scenery lovely, so long as it is someone else who
has to labor in the scorching sun, to plow and toil
in the sweat of his brow.
Jack and his wife Mildred are both extremely
romantic about the farm.
Jack. It stands to reason farming must pay enor
mously. Take a field of oats, for instance; every grain
that s sown gives a huge percentage in return. ... I
don t know exactly how many grains a stalk carries, but
several hundred I m sure . . .
why, there s no invest
ment in the world would give you a return like that.
But soon they discover that every grain of corn
does not yield hundreds of dollars.
Maurice. You can t have a solicitor, and a priest, and
a chemist in a family without spending money, and for
the last ten years you ve been all drawing money out of
the farm . . . there s no more to drain now. . . . Oh,
I suppose you think I m a bloody fool not to be able to
make it pay; but sure what chance have I and I never
taught how to farm? There was money and education
wanted to make priests and doctors and gentlemen of you
all, and wasn t there money an education wanted to make
a farmer of me? No; nothing taught me only what I
picked up from my father and the men, and never a bit of
fresh money to put into the farm only it all kept to make
a solicitor of Bob and a chemist of you.
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