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Title: Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches

Author: George P. Goff

Release Date: June 5, 2006 [EBook #18509]

Language: English

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NICK BABA'S LAST DRINK

AND

OTHER SKETCHES.

BY

GEO. P. GOFF.

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Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli.

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ILLUSTRATED.

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LANCASTER, PENNA.:

INQUIRER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY

1879.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by

GEO. P. GOFF,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.

TO THE

"RAYMOND HALL" SHOOTING CLUB,

THIS

VOLUME IS INSCRIBED.

PREFACE.

THE KIND PARTIALITY OF INDULGENT FRIENDS HAVING INDUCED ME TO GATHER
TOGETHER THESE SCATTERED FRAGMENTS, INDITED AS A RECREATION FOR MY
LEISURE MOMENTS, I GIVE THEM THUS COLLECTED, WITH THE HOPE THAT THE
SAME FAVOR WILL BE EXTENDED TO THEIR IMPERFECTIONS AS HAS SO OFTEN
BEEN SHOWN TO THEIR AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

NICK BABA'S LAST DRINK.

TRIP TO CURRITUCK--ILLUSTRATED.

HAUNTED ISLAND.

LEGEND OF BERKELEY SPRINGS--ILLUSTRATED.

NICK BABA'S LAST DRINK,

AND OTHER SKETCHES.

NICK BABA'S LAST DRINK.

It was Christmas Eve, and the one narrow main street of a small
country town was ablaze. Extra lights were glowing in all the little
shops; yet all this illumination served only to make more apparent the
untidy condition of the