So John Mackenzie had put his foot upon the road. This after he had reasoned it out as a mathematical problem, considering it as a matter of quantities alone. There was nothing in school-teaching at sixty dollars a month when men who had to carry a rubber stamp to sign their names to their checks were making fortunes all around him in sheep. That was the way it looked to John Mackenzie the morning he set out for Poison Creek to hunt up Tim Sullivan and strike him for a job. Against the conventions of the country, he had ...
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So John Mackenzie had put his foot upon the road. This after he had reasoned it out as a mathematical problem, considering it as a matter of quantities alone. There was nothing in school-teaching at sixty dollars a month when men who had to carry a rubber stamp to sign their names to their checks were making fortunes all around him in sheep. That was the way it looked to John Mackenzie the morning he set out for Poison Creek to hunt up Tim Sullivan and strike him for a job. Against the conventions of the country, he had struck out on foot. That also had been reasoned out in a cool and calculative way. A sheepherder had no use for a horse, in the first place. Secondly and finally, the money a horse would represent would buy at least twelve head of ewes. With questioning eyes upon him when he left Jasper, and contemptuous eyes upon him when he met riders in his dusty journey, John Mackenzie had pushed on, his pack on his back. There was not a book in that pack. John Mackenzie, schoolmaster, had been a bondslave of books in that country for four obscure, well-nigh profitless years, and he was done with them for a while. The less a sheepman knew about books, the more he was bound to know about sheep, for sheep would be the object and aim of his existence. Mackenzie knew plenty of sheepmen who never had looked into any kind of a book but a bank-deposit book in their lives. That seemed to be education enough to carry them very nicely along, even to boost them to the state legislature, and lift one of them to the United States senate. So, what was the use of worrying along on a mission of enlightenment at sixty dollars a month?
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Near Very Good in Good jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Name and address of former owner on front endpaper dated January 1st 1922, otherwise unmarked clean and solid. Green covers with brown lettering with some moderate fading or light abrasions on top and bottom of cover not much affecting lettering. Dust jacket missing thin piece along top edge and about 1, 2 inch piece on bottom front panel and less so on top edge rear panel; dj now in protective mylar jacket. Small, clear tape repain on top edge of title page.
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Frontispiece by P.V.E. Ivory. Good + in poor jacket. Deep red-brown cloth, 7.75"x5", 315pp. DJ (complete, but torn into three parts) wrapped separately in transparent sleeve. With the name of owner--one Gisell Tracy, born 1889 in Hungary--on front endpaper in light pencil & dated April 1921 (easily erased if so desired). Otherwise text clean & unmarked.
