What quotation from Two Tramps in Mud Time tells the reader that the tramps do wood-splitting because they have to not because they have a great passion for the work?

Answer 1

"I knew pretty well what he had in mind:

He wanted to take my job for pay."

Answer 2

The quotation "But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite my avocation and my vocation" suggests that the speaker does not have a great passion for the wood-splitting work, but views it as a necessary task to support his livelihood. This implies that the tramps split wood out of necessity rather than out of a love for the work itself.

Answer 3

"As that I had no right to play / With what was another man's work for gain."