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Don't you contradict me. Let him go, I tell you." "You take your hands off that boy, or I'll make you, Si Klegg," said Shorty hotly. "I won't see you imposin' on somebody's that's smaller'n you." The spectacle of the two partners quarreling startled them all. They stopped and looked aghast. "Here, what's all this disorder here," said the Orderly, coming up, impetuously, and as cross as any one.
Harry Joslyn whipped around and took his stand on the right of Gid Mackall. "Here," protested Gid; "Sargint Klegg told me to stand on the right. You're smaller'n me. Git on the other side." "I won't do it," answered Harry. "I've always stood ahead o' you in school, ever since we were in the primer class, and I aint goin' to stand behind you in the army.
He and Toby seemed to disagree as to the size of the prize, the latter stubbornly insisting that it was as large as a little marble. "Aw! rats! What is getting you, Toby!" exclaimed Bandy-legs, in disgust. "Sure you must have been dreaming over it, and things have been growing all night. I tell you it was smaller'n a pea even."
The boy's mouth was a straight line a straight and very bitter line, for such a young mouth. "Naw, he only loves his booze. He hits me all th' time an' he's four times as big as me! An' so I hit whoever's smaller'n I am. An' even if they cry I don't care. I hate things that's little that can't take care o' themselves. Everything had oughter be able t' take care of itself!"
His mother refilled his cup with coffee. As he was finishing the bread, he began to watch if more was forthcoming. She intercepted his questioning glance. "Now, don't be hoggish, Johnny," was her comment. "You've had your share. Your brothers an' sisters are smaller'n you." He did not answer the rebuke. He was not much of a talker. Also, he ceased his hungry glancing for more.
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