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By Sheer Pluck

CHAPTER VI: THE FIRST STEP
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One man ain't the same as another any more than a race horse is the same as a cart horse.

They both sprang from the same stock, at least so they says; but breeding and feeding and care has made one into a slim boned creature as can run like the wind, while the other has got big bones and weight and can drag his two ton after him without turning a hair.

Now, I take it, it's the same thing with gentlefolks and working men.

It isn't that one's bigger than the other, for I don't see much difference that way; but a gentleman's lighter in the bone, and his hands and his feet are smaller, and he carries himself altogether different.

His voice gets a different tone.


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