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Owen Wister. A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge
A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge
Table of Contents
Chapter I: Concerning One’s Letter Box
Chapter II: What the Postman Brought
Chapter III: In Front of a Bulletin Board
Chapter IV: “My Army of Spies”
Chapter V: The Ancient Grudge
Chapter VI: Who Is Without Sin?
Chapter VII: Tarred with the Same Stick
Chapter VIII: History Astigmatic
Chapter IX: Concerning a Complex
Chapter X: Jackstraws
Chapter XI: Some Family Scraps
Chapter XII: On the Ragged Edge
Chapter XIII: Benefits Forgot
Chapter XIV: England the Slacker!
Chapter XV: Rude Britannia, Crude Columbia
Chapter XVI: An International Imposture
Chapter XVII: Paint
Chapter XVIII: The Will to Friendship—or the Will to Hate?
Chapter XIX: Lion and Cub
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Owen Wister
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“England has been always our only legitimate enemy. 1776? Yes, call it ancient history and forget it if possible. 1812? That may go in the same category. But the causes of that misunderstanding were identically repeated in 1914 and ’15.
“1861? Is that also ancient? Perhaps—but very bitter in the memory of many of us now living. The Alabama. The Confederate Commissioners (I know you will say we were wrong there—and so we may have been technically—but John Bull bullied us into compliance when our hands were tied). Lincoln told his Cabinet ‘one war at a time, Gentlemen’ and submitted. …
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