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"Quand nous fumes une fois persuadés que la mer n'avoit pas fait toutes les montagnes, nous entreprîmes de découvrir les caractères distinctifs de celles qui lui devoient leur origine; et s'il étoit, par exemple, des matières qui leur fussent propres. Mais nous y trouvâmes les mêmes difficultés qu'on rencontre dans tout ce qu'on veut classer dans la nature.
The fight is therefore awarded to Mr. Treadwell." "It was by a mighty small margin, anyway," quivered Farley. "I don't feel whipped yet," remarked Dave quietly. "Oh, well, Darry," urged Farley, "don't feel humiliated over being thrashed by such a human mountain of a top classer."
There was tucker on the table, and chaff for our horses; and, during the twenty minutes or so that we stayed, they gave us the outline of the mishap. "Seems that, for some reason or other valuation for mortgage, I'm thinking the classer had come round a few days before; and Spanker had called in every man on the station, to muster the ewes. You know how thick the scrub is on Goolumbulla?
He must have a new suit of clothes a gray suit for the office, and more linen; and at least twice a week he must go to the barber; he could no longer sit down and scrape himself with an old razor with an edge like a saw. Pelle was made to feel that it was not so easy after all to become an "upper- classer," as he called it. And all this cost money.
One was the tar-boy, whose business it was to dab a brushful of tar upon any scarlet patch appearing upon a white under-coat where the shears had clipped too close. The sorter or classer stood behind his long table, above and at right angles to the lines of sheep-pens and shearers.
He must have a new suit of clothes a gray suit for the office, and more linen; and at least twice a week he must go to the barber; he could no longer sit down and scrape himself with an old razor with an edge like a saw. Pelle was made to feel that it was not so easy after all to become an "upper- classer," as he called it. And all this cost money.
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