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قراءة كتاب Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories
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Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories
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FARO NELL
AND HER FRIENDS
WOLFVILLE STORIES
BY
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS
AUTHOR OF "WOLFVILLE," "WOLFVILLE DAYS," "WOLFVILLE NIGHTS," "WOLFVILLE
FOLKS," "THE BOSS," "THE SUNSET TRAIL," "THE APACHES OF
NEW YORK," "THE STORY OF PAUL JONES," ETC.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
W. HERBERT DUNTON AND
J. N. MARCHAND
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1913, By
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
Faro Nell and Her Friends
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO
WILLIAM EUGENE LEWIS
AS MARKING
MY APPRECIATION OF
WHAT QUALITIES PLACE HIM HIGH
AMONG THE BEST EDITORS
BEST BROTHERS AND BEST MEN
I'VE EVER MET
A. H. L.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER | PAGE | |
I | DEAD SHOT BAKER | 7 |
II | OLD MAN ENRIGHT'S UNCLE | 39 |
III | CYNTHIANA, PET-NAMED ORIGINAL SIN | 61 |
IV | OLD MONTE, OFFICIAL DRUNKARD | 99 |
V | HOW THE MOCKING BIRD WAS WON | 126 |
VI | THAT WOLFVILLE-RED DOG FOURTH | 148 |
VII | PROPRIETY PRATT, HYPNOTIST | 176 |
VIII | THAT TURNER PERSON | 198 |
IX | RED MIKE | 225 |
X | HOW TUTT SHOT TEXAS THOMPSON | 260 |
XI | THE FUNERAL OF OLD HOLT | 295 |
XII | SPELLING BOOK BEN | 320 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE | |
We makes four trips back and forth between Wolfville and Red Dog, crackin' off our good old '45's at irreg'lar intervals, Faro Nell on her calico pony as the Goddess of Liberty, bustin' away with the rest. . . . Frontispiece | 170 |
We're all discussin' the doin's of this yere road-agent when Dan gets back from Red-Dog, an' the result is he unloads his findin's on a dead kyard. | 18 |
Dead Shot stops short at this hitch in the discussion, by reason of a bullet from the Lightin' Bug's pistol which lodges in his lung. | 28 |
The second evening Old Stallins is with us, Dan Boggs an' Texas Thompson uplifts his aged sperits with the "Love Dance of the Catamounts." | 42 |
"It's you, Oscar, that I want," observes Miss |