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Title: Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man

Author: Marie Conway Oemler

Release Date: May 17, 2005 [EBook #15843]

Language: English

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SLIPPY McGEE

SOMETIMES KNOWN AS
THE BUTTERFLY MAN

BY
MARIE CONWAY OEMLER

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1920

1917, by
THE CENTURY CO.

Published, April, 1917.
Reprinted, August, 1917; February, 1918;
August, 1918; March, 1919; August, 1919;
November, 1919; February, 1920.

TO
ELIZABETH AND ALAN OEMLER

FOREWORD

I have known life and love, I have known death and disaster;
Foregathered with fools, succumbed to sin, been not unacquainted
with shame;
Doubted, and yet held fast to a faith no doubt could o'ermaster.
Won and lost:--and I know it was all a part of the Game.

Youth and the dreams of youth, hope, and the triumph of sorrow:
I took as they came, I played them all; and I trumped the trick
when I could.
And now, O Mover of Men, let the end be to-day or to-morrow--
I have staked and played for Myself, and You and the Game were good!

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I APPLEBORO 3
II THE COMING OF SLIPPY McGEE 19
III NEIGHBORS 37
IV UNDERWINGS 48
V ENTER KERRY 65
VI "THY SERVANT WILL GO AND FIGHT WITH THIS PHILISTINE."
1 SAM. 17-32 94
VII THE GOING OF SLIPPY McGEE 111
VIII THE BUTTERFLY MAN 131
IX NESTS