Crooks miserably. Only Slim and the boss have been in here. to Candy quickly changed the conversation He did not want talk about the differences between blacks and whites. "Slim's the best worker l've ever met,' he said. Lennie leant towards the old man. What about the rabbits he asked again. Candy smiled. "I've worked out a plan," he said. "We can make some money with the rabbits if we know how to organise things. "But I'm going to look after the rabbits,' Lennie interrupted. George said I could look after He promised. Now it was crooks turn to interrupt. "You men are fooling yourselves," he said. "You'll talk about the ranch a lot, but you'll never get it. You'll be a cleaner here till you die, Candy. Ive seen too many men with ideas like yours. Lennie will work for two or three weeks, but then he'll leave and travel around looking for work again. Everybody seems to think about owning land, but nobody ever gets it.' Candy rubbed his cheek angrily. "We're going to get that ranch," he said. "George says we're going to do it. We've got the money ready. Really?" said Crooks. "And where's George now? He's in Soledad in a brothel. He's spending your money. My God, I've seen it happen so many times. I've seen too many men who wanted to own land, but they never got any.' "Of course men want to own land cried Candy. Everybody wants a little bit of land that belongs to him. Every man wants to have somewhere to live, where nobody can throw him out. of e never had anything like that. I've planted crops on a we ranches in California, but they weren't my crops. When harvested them it wasn't my harvest. But we're going to do it now George hasn't got the money with him in Soledad. The money's in the bank. The ranch is going to be for me and Lennie and George. We're going to have a room for ourselves, and a dog and some rabbits and some chickens. We're going to have green corn,