Tioba, and Other Tales

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Arthur Willis Colton. Tioba, and Other Tales

Tioba, and Other Tales

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TIOBA

HERE LIES JIM HAWKS, KILLED BY ROCKS. HE DIDN'T ACT THE WAY HE OUGHT. THAT'S ALL I'll SAY OF JIM. HERE HE LIES, WHAT'S LEFT OF HIM.=

A MAN FOR A' THAT

THE GREEN GRASSHOPPER

THE ENEMIES

A NIGHT'S LODGING

ON EDOM HILL

I

II

III

SONS OF R. RAND

CONLON

ST CATHERINE'S

THE SPIRAL STONE

THE MUSIDORA SONNET

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Arthur Colton

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Now, neither Sheriff Hall nor the extra woman showed up in the valley any more, so it seemed likely they had heard of Tioba falling, and agreed Jim wouldn't be any good, if they could find him. It was two weeks more before I saw the sheriff, him driving through, going over to Helder's. I saw him get out of his buggy to see the monument, and I went up after, and led him over to show Jim's epitaph, which I took to be a good epitaph, except the second line.

Now, what do you think he did? Why, he busted out a-haw-hawing ridiculous, and it made me mad.

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