Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories

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Lewis Alfred Henry. Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories

I. DEAD SHOT BAKER

II. OLD MAN ENRIGHT'S UNCLE

III. CYNTHIANA, PET-NAMED ORIGINAL SIN

IV. OLD MONTE, OFFICIAL DRUNKARD

V. HOW THE MOCKING BIRD WAS WON

VI. THAT WOLFVILLE-RED DOG FOURTH

VII. PROPRIETY PRATT, HYPNOTIST

VIII. THAT TURNER PERSON

IX. RED MIKE

X. HOW TUTT SHOT TEXAS THOMPSON

XI. THE FUNERAL OF OLD HOLT

XII. SPELLING BOOK BEN

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"Which you'll excoose me," and the old cattleman replaced his glass upon the table with a decisive click, "if I fails to j'ine you in them sent'ments. For myse'f, I approves onreserved of both lies an' liars. Also, that reemark goes double when it comes to public liars tellin' public lies. Which, however se'fish it may sound, I prefers this gov'ment to last my time; an' it's my idee that if them statesmen back at Washington ever takes a hour off from their tax-eatin' an' tells the people the trooth, the whole trooth an' nothin' but the trooth of their affairs, said people'll be down on the sityooation instanter, like a weasel on a nest of field mice, an' wipe the face of nacher free an' cl'ar of these United States."

The above was drawn forth by my condemnatory comments on the published speech of a Senator, wherein the truth was as a grain of wheat in a bushel of mendacious chaff.

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"'Every time he gets in reach I jabs him in the eye with the splinter end of the bough, an' at last he grows that disgusted at these formal'ties he swims off to the bank. Thar he camps down on his ha'nches, an' glares green-eyed at me across the ragin' flood.

"'Shore, I could have raised the long yell for he'p, but am withheld by foolish pride. Besides, I can hear Ben an' Jenks tusslin' an' gruntin' an' carryin' on over in the mouth of the hollow, as they kyarves into each other with their knives, an' don't want to distract their attention.

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