`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

I'm used to all three, but I think the French have the healthiest attitude ''.

I used to love this country and believe that someday we'd win our battle for equality.

It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

I used a Homemaster Routo-Jig made by Porter Cable for this job.

I used bright red, mixing the pigment in thoroughly before adding the hardener.

For padding the seats and bunks, I used Ensolite, Type Aj.

I have used a variety of heavy-weight hand-made papers, but prefer an English make, rough surface, in 400-pound weight.

`` My brushes are different from those used by most watercolorists, for I combine the sable and the bristle.

As everybody is curious to see the battery of glass tubes I have invented, I have had quite a small one made here of four glass tubes ( in Copenhagen I used 30 ) and intend to carry it with me ''.

A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine, who used to often seclude herself in her room, often sounded through the closed door -- as I would find on passing by, between our sessions -- for all the world like two persons, a scolding mother and a defensive child.

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

This country has not used them, and I hope that we never will be compelled to use them.

Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.

`` OK., I won't play hard '', he promised.

`` I don't believe I'll play any more neither ''.

I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

In this play there were some thirty or more named characters and I don't know how many more unnamed.

In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.

This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

I wanted to help so that we could find time to play.

I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

`` Let's play hero '', I said.

I know Negroes who prefer the South and white Southerners, because `` At least there, you haven't got to play any guessing games ''!!

Then later I had quit my safe, secure five-a-week spot on a network soap opera to take a part in this play.

I knew the only way I could beat you was to play possum, but it was a good try, kid, and I appreciate it.

`` We'll let him do a lot of running this week, but I don't know if he'll be able to play ''.

`` That permitted us to start controlling the ball right away '', said Stram, quipping, `` I think I'll put that play in the book ''.

This year, I am told, the CBS network will continue to abide by the rule but NBC will play to a conclusion here.

As Hartweger accepted his silver bowl, he said, `` I want to thank coach's wife for talking him into letting me play ''.

`` When I've made a dumb play '', he says, `` I don't want to talk to anyone.

Benched at Tulsa in 1955, he told manager Dutch Meyer: `` I can't play for you.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.

I could see their faces glistening with sweat and bear grease, their mouths open, shouting their spine-chilling cries.

I have it with me, right here.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??

I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

Where I go, she goes -- and the kids with us.

I am with you, of course, Tomas ''.

At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.

Adios '', I said, exhausting my Spanish vocabulary on my host and exchanging one of a scarcely-tapped store of smiles with my host's daughters.