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Ben Ames Williams. Thrifty Stock, and Other Stories
Thrifty Stock, and Other Stories
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
THRIFTY STOCK
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THEY GRIND EXCEEDING SMALL
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IV
OLD TANTRYBOGUS
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VII
ONE CROWDED HOUR
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IV
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VI
MINE ENEMY’S DOG
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IV
V
“JESHURUN WAXED FAT”
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IV
V
EPITOME
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IV
A DREAM
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VII
VIII
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HIS HONOR
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THE COWARD
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NOT A DRUM WAS HEARD
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THE MAN WHO LOOKED LIKE EDISON
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IV
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SUCCESS
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IV
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SHEENER
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IV
V
THE FIELD OF HONOR
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THE UNCONQUERED
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VII
THE RIGHT WHALE’S FLUKES
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IV
Footnote
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Ben Ames Williams
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The child was on the floor. The woman had a drink of milk and egg and rum, hot and ready for us. We drank, and Hazen knelt beside the child. A boy baby, not yet two years old. It is an ugly thing to say, but I hated this child. There was an evil malevolence in his baby eyes. I have sometimes thought the gray devils must have left just such hate-bred babes as this in France. Also, he was deformed—a twisted leg. The women of the neighborhood sometimes said he would be better dead. But Hazen Kinch loved him. He lifted him in his arms now with a curious passion in his movement, and the child stared at him sullenly. When the mother came near, the baby squalled at her, and Hazen said roughly:
