GRANDMOTHER: Well, you're not the first. Many a man older than you has
come to argue it.
SMITH: (_smiling_) They thought they'd try a young one.
GRANDMOTHER: Some one that knew him thought that up. Silas'd help a
young one if he could. What is it you're set on buying?
SMITH: Oh, I don't know that we're set on buying anything. If we could
have the hill (_looking off to the right_) at a fair price--
GRANDMOTHER: The hill above the town? Silas'd rather sell me and the
cat.
SMITH: But what's he going to do with it?
GRANDMOTHER: Maybe he's going to climb it once a week.
SMITH: But if the development of the town demands its use--
GRANDMOTHER: (_smiling_) You the development of the town?
SMITH: I represent it. This town has been growing so fast--
GRANDMOTHER: This town began to grow the day I got here.
SMITH: You--you began it?
GRANDMOTHER: My husband and I began it--and our baby Silas.
SMITH: When was that?
GRANDMOTHER: 1820, that was.
SMITH: And--you mean you were here all alone?
GRANDMOTHER: No, we weren't alone. We had the Owens ten miles down the
river.
SMITH: But how did you get here?
GRANDMOTHER: Got here in a wagon, how do you s'pose? (_gaily_) Think we
flew?
SMITH: But wasn't it unsafe?
GRANDMOTHER: Them set on safety stayed back in Ohio.
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