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Title: Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas

Author: Rupert Hughes

Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22696]

Language: English

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COL. CROCKETT'S CO-OPERATIVE CHRISTMAS

RUPERT HUGHES

[Illustration]

Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas

[Illustration: LAST NIGHT I ATE A HORRIBLE MOCKERY OF A CHRISTMAS DINNER
IN A DESERTED RESTAURANT]

[Illustration]

Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas

By Rupert Hughes

Philadelphia and London
George W Jacobs and Company

COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
_Published September, 1906_

_All rights reserved_
_Printed in U. S. A._

Illustrations

Last night I ate a horrible mockery of a Christmas
dinner in a deserted restaurant _Frontispiece_

As blue as all the swear words ever swore _Facing page_ 14

He said if I ever come near again he'd sic the dogs on me 18

"Only one thousand plunks," says he 40

James J. James, Publicity Expert 48

Old Miss Samanthy Clay got a box of cigars meant for Judge Randolph 60

[Illustration]

Foreword

Of all the strange gatherings that have distinguished Madison Square
Garden, the strangest was probably on the occasion, last Christmas,
when the now well-known Colonel D. A. Crockett, of Waco, rented the vast
auditorium for one thousand dollars, and threw it open to the public.
As he is goi