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قراءة كتاب Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope

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Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope

Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope

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SKOOKUM CHUCK
FABLES

BITS OF HISTORY,
THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE

(Some of which appeared in the Ashcroft Journal)

BY

SKOOKUM CHUCK

Author of "Songs of a Sick Tum Tum," and some others

Copyright, Canada, 1915,
by R.D. Cumming

Preface

It is more difficult to sell a good book by a new author than it is to sell a poor one by a popular author, because the good book by the new author must make its way against great odds. It must assert itself personally, and succeed by its own efforts. The book by the popular author flies without wings, as it were. The one by the well-known author has a valuable asset in its creator; the one by the new author has no asset but its own merits.

I am not contending by the above that this is a good book; far from it. Some books, however, having very little literary recommendation, may be interesting in other ways.

There are several things instrumental in making for the success of a book: first, the fame of the author; second, the originality of the theme or style; third, the extent of the advertising scheme, and fourth, the proximity of the subject matter to the heart and home of the reader; and this last is the reason for the "Skookum Chuck Fables."

If the following stories are not literature, they are spiced with familiar local sounds and sights, and they come very close to every family fireside in British Columbia. For this reason I hope to see a copy in every home in the province.

The Author.

Contents

Skookum Chuck Fables: page
     Of the Rolling Stone 9
     Of Cultus Johnny 17
     Of the Booby Man 24
     Of Hard Times Hance 35
     Of the Too Sure Man 55
     Of the Unloved Man 60
     Of the Chief who was Bigger than He Looked 66
     Of Simple Simon Up to Date 72
     Of the High Class Eskimo 79
     Of the Sweet Young Things 89
     Of the Two Ladies in Contrast 97
     Of the Ruse that Failed 100
     Of the Real Santa Claus 107
     Of the Retreat from Moscow 113
     Of Sicamous 118
     Of the Ubiquitous Cat 122
Bits of History:  
     Of the Foolhardy Expedition 127
     Of the Laws of Lycurgus 133
     Of Joan of Arc 138
     Of Voices Long Dead 144
     Of the White Woman Who Became an Indian Squaw 151
Through the Microscope 157

Of the Rolling Stone

Once upon a time in a small village in Bruce County, Province of Ontario,

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