Mr. Edwards admired the well-built, pleasant house and heartily enjoyed the good dinner. But he said he was going on West with the train when it pulled out. Pa could not persuade him to stay longer." I'm aiming to go far West in the spring, " he said. "This here, country, it's too settled up for me. The politicians are a-swarming in already, and ma'am if'n there's any worse pest than grasshoppers it surely is politicians. Why, they'll tax the lining out'n a man's pockets to keep up these here county-seat towns.."" Feller come along and taxed me last summer. Told me I got to put in every last thing I had. So I put in Tom and Jerry, my horses, at fifty dollars apiece, and my oxen yoke, Buck and Bright, I put in at fifty, and my cow at thirty five.' Is that all you got?' he says. Well I told him I'd put in five children I reckoned was worth a dollar apiece.' Is that all?' he says. 'How about your wife?' he says.' By Mighty! ' I says to him. 'She says I don't own her and I don't aim to pay no taxes on her, ' I says. And I didn't. . Laura Ingalls Wilder
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