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The Claim Jumpers

The Claim Jumpers

White, Stewart Edward

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1976325056
ISBN13: 9781976325052
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 12 2017
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In a fifth-story sitting room of a New York boarding house four youths were holding a discussion. The sitting room was large and square, and in the wildest disorder, which was, however, sublimated into a certain system by an illuminated device to the effect that one should Have a Place for Everything, and then there'll be one Place you won't have to look. Easels and artists' materials thrust back to the wall sufficiently advertised the art student, and perhaps explained the untidiness. Two of the occupants of the room, curled up on elevated window ledges, were emitting clouds of tobacco smoke and nursing their knees; the other two, naked to the waist, sat on a couple of ordinary bedroom mattresses deposited carefully in the vacant centre of the apartment. They were eager, alert-looking young men, well-muscled, curly of hair, and possessing in common an unabashed carriage of the head which, more plainly than any mere facial resemblance, proved them brothers. They, too, were nursing their knees. He must be an unadorned ass, remarked one of the occupants of the window seats, in answer to some previous statement. He is not, categorically denied a youth of the mattresses. My dear Hench, you make no distinctions. I've been talking about the boy's people and his bringing up and the way he acts, whereupon you fly off on a tangent and coolly conclude things about the boy himself. It is not only unkind, but stupid.

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