The Little Lady of The Big House by Jack London Chapter 27 Page 12

‘That is just what I mean, Mr. Smith. You are to go down the hill, not because you climbed over another man’s fence — that’s your business and his; but because you were guilty of causing a disturbance that is an impairment of ranch efficiency.’

“Do you know, Evan,” Paula broke in on her recital, “Dick can nose more human tragedy out of columns of ranch statistics than can the average fiction writer out of the whirl of a great city. Take the milk reports — the individual reports of the milkers — so many pounds of milk, morning and night, from cow so-and-so, so many pounds from cow so-and-so. He doesn’t have to know the man. But there is a decrease in the weight of milk. ‘Mr. Parkman,’ he’ll say to the head dairyman, ‘is Barchi Peratta