The Little Lady of The Big House by Jack London Chapter 8 Page 3

judgment. You noticed I doubled my order. Those Idaho buyers will be wild for them. I only had buying orders straight for six carloads, and contingent on my judgment for two carloads more; but if every buyer doesn’t double his order, straight and contingent, when he sees them rams, and if there isn’t a stampede for what’s left, I don’t know sheep. They’re the goods. If they don’t jump up the sheep game of Idaho � well, then Forrest’s no breeder and I’m no buyer, that’s all.”

As the warning gong for lunch rang out — a huge bronze gong from Korea that was never struck until it was first indubitably ascertained that Paula was awake — Dick joined the young people at the goldfish fountain in the big patio. Bert Wainwright, variously advised and commanded by