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Why is Beauty Smith's name unusual?
Part IV Chapter 2, where this question can be found
Part IV Chapter 2, where this question can be found
Smith's name is unusual because he is anything but a beauty.
No one knew his first name, and in general he was known in the country as Beauty Smith. But he was anything save a beauty. To antithesis was due his naming. He was pre-eminently unbeautiful. Nature had been niggardly with him. He was a small man to begin with; and upon his meagre frame was deposited an even more strikingly meagre head. Its apex might be likened to a point. In fact, in his boyhood, before he had been named Beauty by his fellows, he had been called “Pinhead.”
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