The Project Gutenberg eBook, William Adolphus Turnpike, by William Banks

Title: William Adolphus Turnpike

Author: William Banks

Release Date: May 22, 2008 [eBook #25562]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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Kindly hands bound up his wounds

WILLIAM ADOLPHUS TURNPIKE

by

WILLIAM BANKS

J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
27 MELINDA STREET, TORONTO
1913

All rights reserved

TO MY MOTHER

CONTENTS

WILLIAM ADOLPHUS TURNPIKE

CHAPTER I

"What! never been to a political meeting; an' you living in a city. Back to the hamlet for you, boy; you're lost.

"You're not? You know where you live, and could find your way home in the dark? My, but you're cert'nly the quick actor when it comes to thinking.

"Sure I've been to more'n a dozen political meetin's. Ain't my Pa a member er the ex-ecutive of Ward Eighteen Conservative Club? He's a charter member, too. Don't he rent the parlor for a pollin' booth on votin' day, hire himself for a scrooteneer, and have my uncle Henry for constable?

"Your father wouldn't do them things, eh! Well, maybe he ain't never had the chance.

"The first political meeting I went to? Well it was in the hall where the Sons of Italy