midday
Would it take much labor to clear a farm ? Was there any likelihood of trouble with the Indians or with the Britishers ? Could a man really get a mile square of good farm land without trouble ? And so on , and so on , as we sat in the blinding sun in the sage-brush desert until midday . Of course it came to politics . Yes , Texas had been annexed , somehow , not by regular vote of the Senate . There was some hitch about that .