Also, as I looked at the mite of a youth with the heart of a lion, I thought, this is the type that on occasion rears barricades and shows the world that men have not forgotten how to die.
But up spoke my other companion, a man of twenty-eight, who eked out a precarious existence in a sweating den.
"I'm a 'earty man, I am," he announced.

"Not like the other chaps at my shop, I ain't.

They consider me a fine specimen of manhood.

W'y, d' ye know, I weigh ten stone!" I was ashamed to tell him that I weighed one hundred and seventy pounds, or over twelve stone, so I contented myself with taking his measure.
Poor, misshapen little man! His skin an unhealthy colour, body gnarled and twisted out of all decency, contracted chest, shoulders bent prodigiously from long hours of toil, and head hanging heavily forward and out of place! A "'earty man,' 'e was!" "How tall are you ?" "Five foot two," he answered proudly; "an' the chaps at the shop.

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