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Title: Old Man Savarin and Other Stories

Author: Edward William Thomson

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Language: English

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OFF-HAND STORIES

OLD MAN SAVARIN

And Other Stories

BY

EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON

TORONTO:

WILLIAM BRIGGS, WESLEY BUILDINGS.

C. W. COATES, MONTREAL, QUE. S. F. HUESTIS, HALIFAX, N.S.

1895.

Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, by WILLIAM BRIGGS,
Toronto, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture, at Ottawa.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I. OLD MAN SAVARIN 7

II. THE PRIVILEGE OF THE LIMITS 29

III. MCGRATH'S BAD NIGHT 45

IV. GREAT GODFREY'S LAMENT 67

V. THE RED-HEADED WINDEGO 89

VI. THE SHINING CROSS OF RIGAUD 109

VII. LITTLE BAPTISTE 125

VIII. THE RIDE BY NIGHT 152

IX. DRAFTED 174

X. A TURKEY APIECE 199

XI. GRANDPAPA'S WOLF STORY 219

XII. THE WATERLOO VETERAN 239

XIII. JOHN BEDELL 251

XIV. VERBITZSKY'S STRATAGEM 271

_For liberty to issue these stories in present form the author has to
thank_ THE YOUTHS' COMPANION, _Boston; the proprietors of "Two Tales,"
in which "Old Man Savarin" and "Great Godfrey's Lament" first
appeared; and "Harper's Weekly" and Mr. S. S. McClure's syndicate of
newspapers, which, respectively, first published "The Privilege of the
Limits" and "John Bedell"_.

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OLD MAN SAVARIN.

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