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Updated: June 16, 2025
Far and away the majority were of the prairie, men from outlying farms and ranches, whose hard, bronzed features and toil-stained kits, marked them out as legitimate workers who found their recreation in the foul purlieus of this drinking booth merely from lack of anything more enticing.
It was thrown so straight in her direction that she knew who was meant, but never turned to look. In the crowded elevator, another dusty, toil-stained youth tried to make an impression on her by leering in her face. One young man, waiting on the walk outside for the appearance of another, grinned at her as she passed. "Ain't going my way, are you?" he called jocosely.
"I want no lectures from you, sir. I know my business," exclaimed the man of God, with rising color. "Ah, I fear that 'business' is to coin the blood of Jesus of Nazareth into golden guineas." The infinite pity in the speaker's voice cowed the pugnacious preacher, and he was about to pass on; but a brown, toil-stained hand the hand of a carpenter was laid upon his shoulder. "Wait, my brother.
The men trooped past him and into the store, talking and chaffing, their clothes toil-stained and ragged, their faces tanned nearly black by the sun. "Now, then, old brusher, where's your reach-me-downers?" one asked. "Sling out a pound of twist as a start," another demanded.
It was thrown so straight in her direction that she knew who was meant, but never turned took. In the crowded elevator, another dusty, toil-stained youth tried to make an impression on her by leering in her face. One young man, waiting on the walk outside for the appearance of another, grinned at her as she passed. " Ain't going my way, are you?" he called jocosely.
The rustic who follows the plow through furrowed fields, unkempt, clownish, toil-stained, weary and overworked, may brawl raucous roundelay at even-tide and enjoy the fullness of earthly bliss. His neighbor similarly situated may suffer agonies because his tastes and ambitions are higher. Those who imagine "plow hands" have no ambitions to gratify know little of life.
Like the remnants of a routed army they came upon the old hotel, some up the road, some down it, and others through the bush. A few had stopped to get their coats, but most of them wore nothing over their soil-and toil-stained shirts and moleskins.
A faint tinge of crimson showed through the pale olive in her cheek, and he caught the glimmer of pearly teeth between the ripe red lips. In her presence he grew painfully conscious that he was ragged, toil-stained and dusty, though he had made the best toilet he could beside a stream. "I have removed the rock, and have brought the tools back," he said.
The three lads settled themselves comfortably in the narrow limits of their little stateroom; for they found that their passage included quarters really more luxurious than they had been accustomed to in their Kansas log-cabin. "Not much army blanket and buffalo-robe about this," whispered Oscar, pressing his toil-stained hand on the nice white spread of his berth.
The little child in life notices none of these distinctions, he marks nothing of them. Let us come as little children before Him. We may be war-battered, sin-marked, toil-stained, care-burdened. Let us forget it all this Christmas morning. It was a poor place, that manger the poorest place on earth but it was a place. It was somewhere. Let us give humanity even as little as a manger.
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