Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: September 9, 2025
"I couldn't tell you. I felt more like it." He had a curious quality of an intelligent, almost sophisticated mind, which had repudiated education. On purpose he kept the midland accent in his speech. He understood perfectly what a personification was and an allegory. But he preferred to be illiterate. Josephine found out what a miner's checkweighman was.
Sometimes the miner grows tired of being robbed of his weights, and applies for the protection which the law of the state allows him. What happens then? "When a man asked for a checkweighman, in the language of the super he was getting too smart." "And he got what?" "He got it in the neck, generally."
"Men's checkweighman," replied Aaron. He had emptied his glass. He put it on the table. "Have another?" said Jim, who was attending fixedly, with curious absorption, to the stranger. "No," cried Josephine, "no more." Aaron looked at Jim, then at her, and smiled slowly, with remote bitterness. Then he lowered his head again. His hands were loosely clasped between his knees.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking