A man can do that. A man as big as me is accustomed to doing his work that way, accustomed to telling stock what to do, to wade in on anything and lash out, moving whatever is in his way, cutting down or plowing up. A man works that way, but I needed to show a difference here, for the boy wasn’t a piece of stock or land. He was a man, not grown yet, but accustomed to his own way, and I wish I had gone about it differently.”
