Overland Monthly and Out West MagazineBret Harte A. Roman and Company, 1909 |
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Page 77
... Lean - face , the name having been conferred by Po- bolo in a splendid bit of statecraft . Lean- face was not only spare of cheek but con- tracted in belly and scrawny of limbs . Pobolo frequently ridiculed him to the chief . " Behold this ...
... Lean - face , the name having been conferred by Po- bolo in a splendid bit of statecraft . Lean- face was not only spare of cheek but con- tracted in belly and scrawny of limbs . Pobolo frequently ridiculed him to the chief . " Behold this ...
Page 78
... Lean - face availed himself of this audience . Ugwuf always denied him in the end . For instance , Lean - face wished to have the dead buried in the ground instead of being thrown over a cliff . The plan was a safe - guard against their ...
... Lean - face availed himself of this audience . Ugwuf always denied him in the end . For instance , Lean - face wished to have the dead buried in the ground instead of being thrown over a cliff . The plan was a safe - guard against their ...
Page 79
... Lean - face lay in the one position , until news of the odd event caused the approach of the king and his minister of State . Ugwuf looked on dis- dainfully , while Pobolo poked the pros- trate man with his foot . The magnitude of the ...
... Lean - face lay in the one position , until news of the odd event caused the approach of the king and his minister of State . Ugwuf looked on dis- dainfully , while Pobolo poked the pros- trate man with his foot . The magnitude of the ...
Page 80
... Lean - face could not him , but Lean - face heard . " see At this point , Pobolo was constrained to regale himself with laughter . " Now , who ever heard anybody so far away ? It is laugh - laugh to listen to this Lean - face talker ...
... Lean - face could not him , but Lean - face heard . " see At this point , Pobolo was constrained to regale himself with laughter . " Now , who ever heard anybody so far away ? It is laugh - laugh to listen to this Lean - face talker ...
Page 81
... Lean- face with his dependence upon matters which none of them could behold or know . It was at first puzzling , even to Lean - face , that the more the tribe was puzzled the more it was delighted ; the less it knew the less it doubted ...
... Lean- face with his dependence upon matters which none of them could behold or know . It was at first puzzling , even to Lean - face , that the more the tribe was puzzled the more it was delighted ; the less it knew the less it doubted ...
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