Oh, I dunno. Hardly none of the guys ever travel together. I hardly never seen two guys travel together.
You know how the hands are, they just come in and get their bunk and work a month, and then they quit and go out alone.
Never seem to give a damn about nobody. It jus’ seems kinda funny a cuckoo like him and a smart little guy like you travelin’ together.
He ain’t no cuckoo,said George.He’s dumb as hell, but he ain’t crazy.
An’ I ain’t so bright neither, or I wouldn’t be buckin’ barley for my fifty and found.
If I was bright, if I was even a little bit smart, I’d have my own little place,
an’ I’d be bringin’ in my own crops, ’stead of doin’ all the work and not getting what comes up outa the ground.”
George fell silent. He wanted to talk. Slim neither encouraged nor discouraged him. He just sat back quiet and receptive.
It ain’t so funny, him an’ me goin’ aroun’ together,George said at last.
Him and me was both born in Auburn. I knowed his Aunt Clara.” “She took him when he was a baby and raised him up.
When his Aunt Clara died, Lennie just come along with me out workin’.
Got kinda used to each other after a little while.” “Umm,” said Slim.
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