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Title: Trailin'!
Author: Max Brand
Release Date: February 15, 2004 [EBook #11093]
Language: English
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TRAILIN'!
By Max Brand
1919
To
ROBERT HOBART DAVIS
Maker of Books and Men
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I.------"LA-A-A-DIES AN' GEN'L'MUN"
II.-----SPORTING CHANCE
III.----SOCIAL SUICIDE
IV.-----A SESSION OF CHAT
V.------ANTHONY IS LEFT IN THE DARK
VI.-----JOHN BARD
VII.----BLUEBEARD'S ROOM
VIII.---MARTY WILKES
IX.-----"THIS PLACE FOR REST"
X.------A BIT OF STALKING
XI.-----THE QUEST BEGINS
XII.----THE FIRST DAY
XIII.---A TOUCH OF CRIMSON
XIV.----LEMONADE
XV.-----THE DARKNESS IN ELDARA
XVI.----BLUFF
XVII.---BUTCH RETURNS
XVIII.--FOOLISH HABITS
XIX.----THE CANDLE
XX.-----JOAN
XXI.----THE SWIMMING OF THE SAVERACK
XXII.---DREW SMILES
XXIII.--THE COMEDY SETTING
XXIV.---"SAM'L HALL"
XXV.----HAIR LIKE THE SUNSHINE
XXVI.---"THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON"
XXVII.--THE STAGE
XXVIII.-SALLY BREAKS A MIRROR
XXIX.---THE SHOW
XXX.----THE LAMP
XXXI.---NASH STARTS THE FINISH
XXXII.--TO "APPREHEND" A MAN
XXXIII.-NOTHING NEW
XXXIV.--CRITICISM
XXXV.---ABANDON
XXXVI.--JERRY WOOD
XXXVII.-"TODO ES PERDO"
XXXVIII.-BACON
XXXIX.--LEGAL MURDER
XL.-----PARTNERS
XLI.----SALLY WEEPS
_The characters, places, incidents and situations in this book are
imaginary and have no relation to any person, place or actual
happening_.
CHAPTER I
"LA-A-A-DIES AN' GEN'L'MUN"
All through the exhibition the two sat unmoved; yet on the whole it was
the best Wild West show that ever stirred sawdust in Madison Square
Garden and it brought thunders of applause from the crowded house. Even
if the performance could not stir these two, at least the throng of
spectators should have drawn them, for all New York was there, from the
richest to the poorest; neither the combined audiences of a seven-day
race, a prize-fight, or a community singing festival would
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