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Title: From Place to Place

Author: Irvin S. Cobb

Release Date: September 6, 2007 [eBook #22530]

Language: English

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FROM PLACE TO PLACE

The Works of

IRVIN S. COBB

[Illustration: Emblem]

The Review of Reviews Corporation
Publishers New York
Published by Arrangement with George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1920,
by George H. Doran Company
Copyright, 1918, 1919, by the Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright, 1918, by the Frank A. Munsey Co.
Copyright, 1913, 1918, by the Red Book Corporation

Printed in the United States of America

TO

CHARLES R. FLINT, ESQ.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE GALLOWSMITH 11

II THE BROKEN SHOELACE 55

III BOYS WILL BE BOYS 96

IV THE LUCK PIECE 156

V QUALITY FOLKS 206

VI JOHN J. COINCIDENCE 259

VII WHEN AUGUST THE SECOND WAS APRIL THE FIRST 302

VIII HOODWINKED 332

IX THE BULL CALLED EMILY 382

FROM PLACE TO PLACE

CHAPTER I

THE GALLOWSMITH

This man that I have it in mind to write about was, at the time of which
I write, an elderly man, getting well along toward sixty-five. He was
tall and slightly stooped, with long arms, and big, gnarled,
competent-looking hands, which smelled of yellow laundry soap, and had
huge, tarnished nails on the fingers. He had mild, pale eyes, a light
blue as to colour, with heavy sacs under them, and whitish whiskers,
spindly and thin, like some sort of second-growth, whi