 | Joaquin Miller - Social Science - 1874 - 522 pages
...understand or get on with my fellow man. He seemed to always want to cheat me — to get my labour for nothing. I could appreciate and enter into the...put out in the society of other smooth pebbles, and nibbed and ground against them till I got as smooth and pointless as they. You must not have points... | |
 | Joaquin Miller - California - 1874 - 556 pages
...understand or get on with my fellow man. He seemed to always want to cheat me — to get my labour for nothing. I could appreciate and enter into the...schoolmaster should have taken me between his thumb and finsrer and rubbed me about till I was as O smooth and as round as the others. Then I should have been... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - American poetry - 1918 - 746 pages
...cheat me — to get my labor for nothing. I could appreciate and enter into the heart of an Indian. ... I think what I most needed in order to understand,...school, where my rough points could be ground down. . . . You must not have points or anything about you singular or noticeable if you would get on. ...... | |
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He seemed to always want to cheat me — to get my labour for nothing. I could appreciate and enter into the heart of an Indian. Perhaps it was because he was natural ; a child of nature ; nearer to God than the white man. I think what I most needed in... 