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Alfred Henry Lewis. Wolfville Nights
Wolfville Nights
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NEW YORK CITY,
MY DEAR STERETT:—
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS
SOME COWBOY FACTS
WOLFVILLE NIGHTS
CHAPTER I. The Dismissal of Silver Phil
CHAPTER II. Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt,
CHAPTER III. How Faro Nell Dealt Bank
CHAPTER IV. How The Raven Died
CHAPTER V. The Queerness of Dave Tutt
CHAPTER VI. With the Apache's Compliments
CHAPTER VII. The Mills of Savage Gods
CHAPTER VIII. Tom and Jerry; Wheelers
CHAPTER IX. The Influence of Faro Nell
CHAPTER X. The Ghost of the Bar-B-8
CHAPTER XI. Tucson Jennie's Correction
CHAPTER XII. Bill Connors of the Osages
CHAPTER XIII. When Tutt first saw Tucson
CHAPTER XIV. The Troubles of Dan Boggs
CHAPTER XV. Bowlegs and Major Ben
CHAPTER XVI. Toad Allen's Elopement
CHAPTER XVII. The Clients of Aaron Green
CHAPTER XVII. Colonel Sterett Relates Marvels
CHAPTER XIX. The Luck of Hardrobe
CHAPTER XX. Colonel Coyote Clubbs
CHAPTER XXI. Long Ago on the Rio Grande
THE END
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Alfred Henry Lewis
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"If Jack's thar, it's even money he'd a-had that second shot instead of Boggs; in which event, the results might have been something graver than this yere minoote wound which Boggs confers. I'm confident Jack would have cut in with the second shot for sech is his offishul system. Jack more'n once proclaims his position.
"'By every roole of law,' says Jack at epocks when he declar's himse'f, 'an' on all o'casions, I, as kettle-tender to the Stranglers, is entitled to the first shot. When I uses the term 'o'casion,' I would be onderstood as alloodin' to affairs of a simply social kind, an' not to robberies, hold-ups, hoss-larcenies, an' other an' sim'lar transactions in spec'latif crime when every gent defends his own. Speakin' social, however, I reasserts that by every roole of guidance, I'm entitled to the first shot. Which a doo regyard for these plain rights of mine would go far to freein' Wolfville upper circles of the bullets which occurs from time to time, an' which even the most onconventional admits is shore a draw-back. All I can add as a closer,' concloods Jack, 'is that I'll make haste to open on any sport who transgresses these fiats an' goes to shootin' first. Moreover, it's likely that said offender finds that when I'm started once, what I misses in the orig'nal deal I'll make up in the draw, an' I tharfore trusts that none will prove so sooicidal as to put me to the test.'
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