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Show WAS WILLING TO COMPROMISE Ernest Wanted Increase of Wages, Though He Stood Ready to Make a Concession. . ; Ernest was very big and very black, J and when It came to sleeping and eating eat-ing fully justified his name. Ernest did not fancy steady work, but he was apt to be available when spring came for odd jobs at a dollar a day and his dinner. One spring he came in with a sheepish sheep-ish grin. "Miss Sally, I been hearin' in da lodge meetin' 'bout dese hard times and I 'low I better raise my sal'ry to a dollar an' a quarter a day." "You're not worth that. Earnest, and you know It. Besides, I can't afford to pay, more." Ernest scratched his head; this was matter for more thought than he had anticipated. "I figgered out when dey wuz talkin' 'bout dem hard times dat I couldn't 'ford to work for no less. But" his black -face gleamed with -a sudden thought "I won' eat so much." |