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"Not so much the offer of a position would I have you consider it," interrupted the other with the first hint of haste he had shown, "as a favor that I would ask. Times are changing, and we natives are high-chested and must learn to make room for others who are coming amongst us.
"Ain't you got nothing better to think about than me?" he asked, with a smile. "Well, the psalm-shouter let me out jerked the piller-slip from under me, you might say and turned me adrift. He's got a high-chested, low-browed Swede in my place. It takes a guy with hair down to his eyebrows to be a buck chamber-maid." "The old rascal!" Ponatah's face darkened with anger.
"Yes, sir that's the kind of a hound I've been." Johnny's abject tone he who had been so high-chested in the past may have had its effect upon the boss. When Sudden spoke again his voice was almost kind, which is unusual, surely, for a man who has been robbed. "Well, I shall have to investigate those greasers, I think.
Turning to them now, he pointed to a high mound topped by a splendid pine standing by itself, and said: "Cannibal Hill. Used to be an Indian called Swift had his lodge there. A fine figger of a man too; high-chested; beautiful-muscled. He was a good Indian; and I want to say when a redskin is good, he's damn good beg pardon, Miss he's good and no mistake, I should say.
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