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If ever a fellow played in a game like that, with all the ways greased for him, Tom was him. Old Man Wright he turns to me one evening when we was setting by the fire in our room, and he says to me: "Well, Curly, how are you enjoying yourself now in this hard and downtrod position that life has gave to you?" "I don't like it none, Colonel," says I; "not none at all, nohow."
"Sir, I must ask you is he not the frien' of the poor and downtrod?" The visitor's smile quite disappeared. He said: "Oh!" and waved a hand impatiently; "Victor Hugo" another mouth "Victor Hugo" replying in French to the schoolmaster's English "is not of my party." And then he laughed unpleasantly and said good-day.
They sun themselves in the great man's light, and feel it to be their own element. They cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero, and will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat, those giant sinews combat and conquer. He lives for us, and we live in him.
And she rippled on about the freedom of her soul and her downtrod sisters and this here New Dawn. "Well, sir, a baby could have pushed me flat with one finger. At first I didn' know no better'n to argue with her, I was that affrighted. 'Why, Nettie Hosford, I says, 'to think I've lived to hear my only sister's only child talking in shrieks like that!
"Now, we ain't downtrod none in this country," finally began Doc Tomlinson, who had made political speeches in Kansas. "Is anybody?" asked Curly, who had never lived anywhere but on the free range. "We've had three squares a day," said McKinney. "This country's just as good as the States." "States!" cried Dan Anderson.
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