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Title: Wolfville Nights

Author: Alfred Lewis

Release Date: October 11, 2004 [EBook #13709]

Language: English

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WOLFVILLE NIGHTS

by

Alfred Henry Lewis

Author of "Wolfville", "Wolfville Days", "Peggy O'Nea", &c.

1902,

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

DEDICATION
SOME COWBOY FACTS
I. THE DISMISSAL OF SILVER PHIL
II. COLONEL STERETT'S PANTHER HUNT
III. HOW FARO NELL DEALT BANK
IV. HOW THE RAVEN DIED
V. THE QUEERNESS OF DAVE TUTT
VI. WITH THE APACHE'S COMPLIMENTS
VII. THE MILLS OF SAVAGE GODS
VIII. TOM AND JERRY; WHEELERS
IX. THE INFLUENCE OF FARO NELL
X. THE GHOST OF THE BAR-B-8
XI. TUCSON JENNIE'S CORRECTION
XII. BILL CONNORS OF THE OSAGES
XIII. WHEN TUTT FIRST SAW TUCSON
XIV. THE TROUBLES OF DAN BOGGS
XV. BOWLEGS AND MAJOR BEN
XVI. TOAD ALLEN'S ELOPEMENT
XVII. THE CLIENTS OF AARON GREEN
XVIII. COLONEL STERETT'S MARVELS
XIX. THE LUCK OF HARDROBE
XX. LONG AGO ON THE RIO GRANDE
XXI. COLONEL COYOTE CLUBBS

To

William Greene Sterett

this volume is

inscribed.

NEW YORK CITY,

August 1, 1902

MY DEAR STERETT:--

In offering this book to you I might have advantage of the occasion
to express my friendship and declare how high I hold you as a
journalist and a man. Or I might speak of those years at Washington
when in the gallery we worked shoulder to shoulder; I might recall to
you the wit of Hannum, or remind you of the darkling Barrett, the
mighty Decker, the excellent Cohen, the vivid Brown, the imaginative
Miller, the volatile Angus, the epigrammatic Merrick, the quietly
satirical Splain, Rouzer the earnest, Boynton the energetic, Carson
the eminent, and Dunnell, famous for a bitter, frank integrity. I
might remember that day when the gifted Fanciulli, with no more
delicate inspiration than crackers, onions, and cheese, and no more
splendid conservatory than Shoemaker's, wrote, played and consecrated
to you his famous