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Title: The Man Next Door

Author: Emerson Hough

Release Date: November 24, 2007 [eBook #23606]

Language: English

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THE MAN NEXT DOOR

by

EMERSON HOUGH

Author of The Covered Wagon, North of 36, Etc.

Illustrated by Will Grefe

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1917, by Emerson Hough
Copyright, 1916, by The Curtis Publishing Company

[Illustration: "'Well,' says she, 'we never played anything for pikers,
did we, dad?'" (Page 35)]

TO THE MEN WITH WHOM I RODE IN THE OLD DAYS

CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I. How Come Us to Move 1
II. Where We Threw In 18
III. Us Living in Town 29
IV. Us and Christmas Eve 37
V. Us and the Home Ranch 49
VI. Us and Them Better Things 60
VII. What Their Hired Man Done 69
VIII. How Old Man Wright Done Business 91
IX. Us and Their Fence 99
X. Us Being Alderman 114
XI. Us and the Freeze-Out 123
XII. Us and a Accidental Friend 129
XIII. Them and the Range Law 144
XIV. How Their Hired Man Come Back 150
XV. The Commandment That Was Broke 162
XVI. How I Was Foreman 167
XVII. Him and the Front Door 174
XVI