“I object!” repeated the man. “When I work I want to see results. I’d rather exercise sawing wood, making one pile grow little and the other big, than top cast all day and catch nothing because there is not a fish to take. Work for work’s sake don’t appeal to me. I work for results.”

He digged the grove around the cocoon with skilled hand.

“Now there is some fun in this!” he said. “It’s going to be a fair job to cut it out, but when it comes, it is not only beautiful, but worth a price; it will help you on your way. I think I’ll put up that rod and hunt moths. That would be something like! Don’t you want help?" (Girl 264)