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Resuming our march eastward by the large road, we soon reached Elk River, which was wide and deep, and could only be crossed by a ferry, a process entirely too slow for the occasion; so I changed the route more by the north, to Elkton, Winchester, and Deckerd. At this point we came in communication with the Army of the...
The condition of the roads was such, and the bridge at Brown's so frail, that it was not until the 23d that we got three of my divisions behind the hills near the point indicated above Chattanooga for crossing the river. It was determined to begin the battle with these three divisions, aided by a division of Thomas's ...
With the head of my infantry column I reached Marysville, about fifteen miles short of Knoxville, on the 5th of December; when I received official notice from Burnside that Longstreet had raised the siege, and had started in retreat up the valley toward Virginia. Halting all the army, except Granger's two divisions, o...
The enemy seems to have had early notice of this movement, and he endeavored to thwart us from the start. A considerable force assembled in a threatening attitude at Salem, south of Salisbury Station; and General Carr, who commanded at Corinth, felt compelled to turn back and use a part of my troops, that had already ...
My command had marched from Memphis, three hundred and thirty miles, and I had pushed them as fast as the roads and distance would admit, but I saw enough of the condition of men and animals in Chattanooga to inspire me with renewed energy. I immediately ordered my leading division (General Ewing's) to march via Shell...
Catching as accurate an idea of the ground as possible by the dim light of morning, I saw that our line of attack was in the direction of Missionary Ridge, with wings supporting on either flank. Quite a valley lay between us and the next hill of the series, and this hill presented steep sides, the one to the west part...
Pausing but a short while, we passed on, the road filled with broken wagons and abandoned caissons, till night. Just as the head of the column emerged from a dark, miry swamp, we encountered the rear-guard of the retreating enemy. The fight was sharp, but the night closed in so dark that we could not move. General G...
Accordingly, at Philadelphia, during the night of the 2d of December, I sent my aide (Major Audenried) forward to Colonel Long, commanding the brigade of cavalry at London, to explain to him how all-important it was that notice of our approach should reach General Burnside within twenty-four hours, ordering him to sele...
In reviewing the facts, I must do justice to the men of my command for the patience, cheerfulness, and courage which officers and men have displayed throughout, in battle, on the march, and in camp. For long periods, without regular rations or supplies of any kind, they have marched through mud and over rocks, sometime...
At that time I was in command of the Department of the Tennessee, which embraced substantially the territory on the east bank of the Mississippi River, from Natchez up to the Ohio River, and thence along the Tennessee River as high as Decatur and Bellefonte, Alabama. General McPherson was at Vicksburg and General Hurl...
It transpired that the colonel of this infantry regiment, whose name I do not recall, had seen some officers of McPherson's staff (among them Inspector-General Strong) coming up the road at a gallop, raising a cloud of duet; supposing them to be the head of McPherson's column, and being anxious to get into camp before ...
Having assembled all my troops in and about Canton, on the 27th of February I left them under the command of the senior major-general, Hurlbut, with orders to remain till about the 3d of March, and then to come into Vicksburg leisurely; and, escorted by Winslow's cavalry, I rode into Vicksburg on the last day of Februa...
I now receive orders to report at Washington immediately, in person, which indicates either a confirmation or a likelihood of confirmation. I start in the morning to comply with the order, but I shall say very distinctly on my arrival there that I shall accept no appointment which will require me to make that city my ...
I will arrive at Vicksburg the 6th instant, and I expect to meet there my command from Canton, out of which I will select two divisions of about ten thousand men, embark them under a good commander, and order him:1st. To rendezvous at the mouth of Red River, and, in concert with Admiral Porter (if he agree), to strike ...
1. Major-General McPherson will organize two good divisions of his corps (Seventeenth) of about five thousand men, each embracing in part the reenlisted veterans of his corps whose furloughs will expire in April, which he will command in person, and will rendezvous at Cairo, Illinois, and report by telegraph and lette...
"Our camp appointments were Spartan in the extreme, and in their simplicity would have met the demands of any demagogue in the land. The nights were cold and damp, and General Sherman uncomfortably active in his preparations, so that the assistant adjutant-general had no very luxurious post just then. We were surroun...
I overtook the rear of the advance about two or three hundred feet up the gentle slope, and was astonished to find how small a force was making the attack.I was also surprised to find that they were Steele's men instead of Morgan's.I also saw several regiments across the bayou, but not advancing; they were near the lev...
"We are to make a charge here; we will charge in two lines; your regiment will be in the first line, and the Twenty-ninth (Cavender's) will support you. Form here in the timber, and move out across the bayou on a double-quick, and go right on to the top of the heights in your front." He then told me to await a signal...
After leaving the Yazoo, the Army of the Mississippi rendezvous was at Milliken's Bend. During the night of January 4th or 5th, General McClernand came on board the Forest Queen, and with General Sherman went to the Black Hawk flag-boat. There an interview took place, during which the expedition to Arkansas Post took...
After reporting to General Sherman, and while explaining the position of the fleet, the smoke-stacks and flags appeared above the fort. What firing was going on in our immediate front ceased. A good many rebels were in plain sight, running away from the fort and scattering. While we were still surprised, the cry was ...
MY DEAR GENERAL: At Arkansas Post the troops debarked from steamer January 9th, from one o'clock to dark, in the vicinity of Notrib's farm, and on the 10th moved out to get position; Steele to the right, crossing the low ground to the north, to get a higher ground, avoid crowding the moving columns, and gain the left (...
Brigadier-General GEORGE CROOK, commanding Second Cavalry Division, Huntsville, Alabama.I start in about three days with seven, thousand men to Meridian via Pontotoc. Demonstrate on Decatur, to hold Roddy.W. SOOY SMITH, Brigadier-General, Chief of Cavalry, Military Division of the Mississippi.MAYWOOD, ILLINOIS, July 9...
Neither do I wish to write my "Memoirs," unless compelled to do so to vindicate my good name. There were certain commands which were to make up mine. These, Waring's brigade included, were spoken of by us in the long conversation to which you refer. This brigade we knew was having a hard time of it in its movement f...
Produced by Curtis Weyant, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)Dave Porter SeriesDAVE PORTER AND HIS RIVALSOR THE CHUMS AND FOES OF OAK HALLBY EDWARD STRATEMEYERAuthor o...
"That's just like Nat Poole," was Phil Lawrence's comment. "If Nat couldn't brag about something he'd die.""By the way, where does Nat keep himself?" questioned Sam Day. "I haven't met him since I came to Crumville.""He has been keeping shady--since our little affair at Niagara Falls," explained Dave."Is he going to re...
In those days, Dave's greatest trouble was the cloud over his parentage, and when he got what he thought was a clew to his identity he promptly followed it up by taking a trip far across the ocean, as related in "Dave Porter in the South Seas." After some stirring happenings, on ship-board and among the natives, he loc...
"Say, you take that back, or I'll--I'll----" blustered Merwell, and then stopped, not knowing how to proceed."Oh, say, come on, you fellows," broke in Nat Poole, who was growing scared, thinking there might be a fight. "You can talk this over some other time. Just remember what we started out to do. Hurry up, let's do ...
"That's right, Nat, make 'em keep off your property," put in Link Merwell."Show 'em that you won't allow a poorhouse nobody to dictate to you," added Nick Jasniff, but in such a low voice that Dave did not catch all he said."I said we were going through on this road--and we are," answered Dave, calmly, and he started t...
"You said your dad had a right to the road," said Jasniff, in disgust."I thought he did have, but--er--I guess I was mistaken. Oh, come on and help me!" pleaded Nat, and set to work without further delay, to clear the road.Jasniff and Merwell were very angry, but they did not care to let their crony do all the work, an...
"You girls had better keep back," warned Dave. "If he breaks loose he may come for you.""Oh, Dave, do be careful!" cried Jessie."Yes, yes, don't go too close," added his sister."What do you suppose we can do?" questioned the senator's son, as the boys gathered in a group at a little distance, and the girls got behind t...
"Oh, he won't hurt nobody--if he's left alone," said the man."How can he hurt anybody, if he is left alone?" was Roger's dry query. But the man was too dull to see the joke.From the stock farm hands, the boys found out which were the best roads to take, and then passed on again, up hill and down dale for a distance of ...
"Oh, I wouldn't say that, Ben," returned Dave. "Nat spends considerable money--although how he gets it from that miserly father of his I don't know--and that makes him some friends. But I, too, wish he wasn't going back to our school.""Do you suppose he'll take the same train we take?""Perhaps, although I hope not."On ...
"Heard you did up Link Merwell," said Luke Watson, another lad, who was well liked because of his singing and playing abilities. "I was glad to hear it.""So were all of us," broke in the third boy, a tall, slim youth, Maurice Hamilton by name. "But speaking of mountain lions puts me in mind of a story. Once three men--...
"That doesn't seem to be damaged any," said Buster, as he looked the tile over. "If it is, of course we'll make it right," he added, hastily. He and Luke were holding the fishing rod at the time of the accident."Do you boys belong at Oak Hall?" demanded the man, smoothing down the roughed-up silk hat with his forearm."...
"Yes, but this year we have more new fellows than ever. A school in Laverport broke up, and sixteen of the students were transferred to Oak Hall--sophs, juniors, and seniors. So those fellows, added to the freshies, make quite a bunch.""What has that got to do with Poole and me?""Nat Poole and one of the fellows from L...
"Well, there is one satisfaction," said Dave, as calmly as he could, although he was as depressed as any one. "It is on their shoulders now to make good. We haven't anything on that score to worry about.""I'll tell you what let's do!" cried Phil. "We'll organize a scrub eleven, and wax 'em out of their shoes!""I don't ...
Arriving at where the rowboat had been tied up, the three chums looked around carefully, and soon saw footprints leading to a little cove, shaded by tall elderberry bushes. Pushing some of the bushes aside, Dave looked into the water and gave a cry:"Here she is, fellows!""Have you really found the boat, Dave?" question...
"Quit it, Shadow!" interrupted Sam. "You don't expect Dave and Roger and Phil to listen to your yarns when they are starving, do you? Tell the story after they have filled up.""Well, it was only a short yarn," pleaded the story-teller of the school. "But, of course, if we can do anything----""You can--I think," said Da...
Soon the feast was in full swing. The pies were large, and were cut into just enough pieces to go around. The fancy crackers were passed around in their boxes, and the apples and pears were placed on a tennis racket and handed around, "like an old-fashioned contribution box," according to Plum's way of describing it."W...
"No, no--I--er--I am sure I am not," stammered Job Haskers, yet in secret he pinched himself to make certain. "I was--er--in bed, and I thought I felt an earthquake--the bed swayed, and I heard a cry----" The teacher stopped suddenly. "Perhaps it was those rascally boys!" he cried, abruptly."Boys! Did they play a joke ...
"One thing is certain--we can't stay up here all morning," burst out the senator's son. "I'm going to borrow a pair of shoes somewhere.""So am I," added Dave. "We'll hunt for the missing shoes later on.""Say!" burst out Shadow, half desperately. "You--you won't tell Doctor Clay about this, will you?""Not if you did it ...
"How do you do?" said Merwell, to Mary and Vera, and at the same time ignoring Dave and his chums.The two girls stared in astonishment, for they had not expected to see the very lads about whom they had been conversing. But they quickly recovered and turned their backs on the newcomers."What's the matter--don't you wan...
"The other fellows ought to be ready to go back to school by this time," said the senator's son, after watching those in the hotel for a minute. "Let us hunt them up;" and thus, for the time being, Jasniff, Merwell, and Doctor Montgomery were dismissed from their minds. The meeting at the hotel was an important one to ...
"I wa--want t-t-to get where it is wa-wa-warm!" chattered Nat. "That wa--water is li--like i-i-i-ice!""Take off your wet coat," said Phil, kindly. "Here, you can have mine. I've got a sweater on." And he passed over the garment.Nat was glad enough to don something dry, and the exchange was quickly made."If you'll take ...
Under the inspiration of the cheering, Oak Hall made a fine kick-off, and by some spirited work carried the pigskin well down into the Lemington territory. But then the ball was lost by Nat Poole, and the opposing eleven brought it back to the center of the gridiron, and then rushed it up to the thirty-yard line of the...
On Monday morning the students of Oak Hall were treated to a surprise. Directly after chapel service Doctor Clay came forward to make an address. He first spoke about the good work that the pupils were, generally speaking, doing, and then branched off about the football game, and the poor exhibition made on the gridiro...
Many of the students wondered what Guy Frapley, Nat Poole, and John Rand would do. On the day following the reorganization of the football eleven, all three students sent telegrams to their parents, and received replies the next day. Rand and Frapley left Oak Hall, and announced that they were going to Rockville Milita...
"We'll give you an initiation you'll never forget, a regular three-ply, dyed in the wool, warranted storm-proof initiation," added Ben, in tragic tones."I don't want to be initiated again!" howled the money-lender's son. "I've had enough of this society. You let me go!""Not to-night!" was the firm answer, and much agai...
All peered forth in the semi-darkness at the big wooden affair. It had sagged in the middle, and the top had twisted several feet to one side. Another brace looked as if it was on the point of breaking and letting it down still further."Better get out of here," said Nat Poole. "If the owner of the ice-houses finds this...
"Giving all of your signals away to Merwell, Jasniff, and one of the Rockville football players. He started to tell about your trick plays when he saw me standing near, and shut up.""Where is he now?""In the grandstand, with some girl.""I will attend to this at once, Chip. Come with me."Dave led the small student out o...
"Now for another goal!"Amid a wild cheering the try for goal was made. But a keen wind had sprung up, and the goal was missed by a few inches."Never mind, that makes the score eleven to six in Oak Hall's favor."Once again the ball was brought into play. There were but seven minutes of time left, and Rockville played li...
As many lads of the school wore red sweaters, and about an equal number wore blue, the idea caught on instantly, and at the noon recess the two armies, of Red and of Blue, were hastily organized. Each numbered twenty-five recruits, and Roger was made the leader on one side and Sam Day the leader on the other. With Roge...
This suggestion was considered a good one, and in a twinkling a long line was formed, the boys taking hold of each other's hands. Dave was at one end of the line, and he approached Messmer with caution."Help me!" gasped Messmer. "Something is dragging me down!""Take hold of my hand," answered Dave. "Hold tight!"Messmer...
"Well, we'll have to make up a team to beat 'em," answered Dave."That won't be so easy," declared another student. "They have some great skaters and hockey players at the military academy this season. They've got one player who is a star.""Who is that?""Will Mallory. He came from down East, and he is the slickest ice-h...
It would be hard to analyze Dave's feelings as he proceeded on his errand to Oakdale. He wondered if Doctor Montgomery was acting on his own account or for Merwell and Jasniff, and he also wondered what the mysterious letters and documents and photographs could be. Was it possible that Laura had once given her photogra...
"That's an old excuse, Nat!" shouted a boy in the rear of the crowd. "Invent something new!" And a laugh went up, that angered the money-lender's son greatly. He took his defeat bitterly, and lost no time in leaving the ice and disappearing from view."A fine race!" declared Mr. Dodsworth, "But I don't know how I am to ...
Of course he struggled, and for several minutes his would-be captors had all they could do to hold him. But he had been taken so completely off his guard that resistance proved useless. Soon a rope was passed around the bag and over his arms, and further struggling was out of the question."Who are you?" he demanded, in...
"Now you had better lie down and try and get a little rest," said the fellow of the mask. "When I want you I'll call you." And so speaking he left the room, locking the door after him.As soon as the man was gone Dave tried to loosen the rope that bound his feet together. It was a hard task and took some time, and bendi...
"Yes, but it isn't a passenger train," was the reply."Can't you take me along?" questioned Dave. "I wish to get to Oakdale very much, and without delay."The train hand looked Dave over by the light of his lantern. He saw that the youth was no tramp."All right, get in the caboose," he said. "But it will cost you a smoke...
"Speaking of having it won already, puts me in mind of a story," came from Shadow. "A little girl went in the pantry and stayed quite a while. When she came out she asked her mother: 'Ma, can I have a cruller?' 'Yes, my dear,' answered ma. Then she saw that the little girl wasn't eating anything, so she asked: 'Why don...
"Get it out, fellows!" cried Dave, and then gave a signal to bring it back. This was not expected by the Poole players, and before they realized what was occurring, the Porter seven had the puck nearly to the goal net. Here a fierce fight occurred, and the disc went back and forth with astonishing rapidity. But at last...
"Say, did you give me away, after all?" demanded Nat Poole, rushing forward and catching Tom Hally by the arm."Let go of me!" returned Hally. "I don't know what you are talking about.""Yes, you do, you sneak!""I'm no sneak!" And Tom Hally's eyes flashed dangerously."Hally, tell me, did Nat Poole take our shoes and boot...
"Why--ah--who--ahem!--where did you come from?" stammered Hooker Montgomery. He was so taken back that he knew not what to say. He had not dreamed that Dave and his chums would visit Hopperville, which was somewhat out of the regular line of travel."I guess you didn't think I'd find you," continued Dave."Were you--ahem...
"Ah, don't talk to him," blustered Jasniff. "Let go of me!" And he tore himself loose."Jasniff, you've got to talk to me," answered Dave. "If you won't talk I'll call an officer.""Don't you do that!" cried Merwell, in increased alarm. "You let me go! It's a--a--mistake! I haven't done anything!" And he commenced to bac...
When the call sounded to start the second half of the game, the Oak Hall seven came forward with a do-or-die look on their set faces. Rockville, on the other hand, wore a happy smile, as if the victory was already a sure thing.For a minute the playing was uncertain. Then came a surprise, for Oak Hall "broke loose," to ...
"Humph, as if I didn't see the letter you got from Belle Endicott," retorted the senator's son."Dave got a letter, too--from Jessie," went on Phil. "Perhaps----""Hi, you fellows, get through grinding, and come for a skate!" shouted Ben, bursting into the dormitory. "The ice was never better.""That's the talk!" cried Da...
Produced by Audrey Longhurst and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netLADY LUCK_BOOKS BY HUGH WILEY_JADE, and Other Stories LADY LUCK THE WILDCATLADY LUCKBy HUGH WILEYNEW YORK ALFRED . A . KNOPFCOPYRIGHT, 1921, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICATOMY FATHER"...
"Is he rampagin' roun' I makes two widows stid of one does I ketch him. Cleah outen heah!"Honey Tone's vindictive mate craved solitude in which to enjoy the misery of her ambition for revenge.The Wildcat cleared out, taking with him a substantial segment of corn bread and two hot slices of ham. "Does Honey Tone live th...
The Wildcat gathered in his winnings. He laid a twenty-dollar bill on the green table. "Fade me is you frantic."Honey Tone covered the bet."Gallopers, pay de rent. Wham! Morning, rainbow. Wah just begun. Dove ob Peace got one hot end, like a hornet. Gallopers, see kin yo' uplift de Honey Tone Jack."The dice raced on th...
"I's de Supreem Gran' Arrangeh!" he suddenly exclaimed. "I's de double Grandes' Arrangeh whut is!" A faint bleat sounded from the darkness. "Shut up, Lily! Fo' I gits th'oo arrangin', yo' an' me bofe rides de mule does us crave to."CHAPTER II1.The following morning the Wildcat gorged himself on a ponderous breakfast. "...
"Dis corner says, 'Yes.' Dat corner says, 'No.' De little board slides Yes or No, dependin' how de spirits answers whut yo' asks."The cross-examination of Mr. Ouija and his talented aggregation of spirits endured for an hour, during which time a number of interesting facts concerning various members of the assemblage b...
"Boy, roll 'em." Honey Tone proffered a pair of anxious dice, but the Wildcat paid no attention to the offer."I got mah pussonal weapons," he said. He fished a pair of dice from his left shoe. "Dey speaks de language. Gallopehs, git right. Wham! Ah tol' you! Ah lets it lay. Shoots a dollah."Honey Tone faded the bet. "R...
In the face of the assemblage Honey Tone could not back down. He mounted the mule. To his surprise the animal walked slowly and with all the peculiar dignity that a mule can summon. The uplifter looked down at the Wildcat. "Line 'em up fo' de gran' entry," he said.The Wildcat turned and called loudly to the marching co...
The Wildcat's skin shrank a size or two at the mention of jail. "I ain't done nuthin'. Fo'git dem jail words. All I got is business in Chicago, an' I aims to ride wid de Baptist."The Red Cap came to realize that the Wildcat sought to avoid publicity. "I knows a place whah you kin crawl undah a five-dollah bill an' hide...
A furore of acrobatic groaning marked a scene wherein the Wildcat was doing the best he could to pry himself loose from something that clung to various parts of his anatomy with a beak and eight sharp claws."Come heah! Light de light. Some varmint's got me."The Backslid Baptist retraced his steps. "Ain't no varmint. On...
"Gimme dem bones. Hind laigs at res'." The Wildcat subsided to the floor. "Fingehs, lemme see kin you play de pickpocket jazz. Shoots five dollahs. Wham! Ah reads a feeble five. Five stay alive. Five Ah craves. Lady Luck, boon me. P'odigal five, come home whah de fat calf waits. Bam! Th'ee an' a deuce. Ah lets it lay. ...
"Goat, doggone you, come to 'tenshun! No wondeh you kain't eat lettuce, wid yo' insides crammed wid a ton ob linen an' half a pair ob pants fo' dessert. Me sympathizin' wid you, an' you an' de green chicken banquetin' all night on 'spensive raiment! 'Ceptin' foh havin' to scrub de flo', I'd barbecue de blood outen yo' ...
Presently, across a wide desk he confronted Authority. A kindly gentleman questioned him, and to the questions he replied with an assortment of impromptu lies whose range and ingenuity busted every previous record for careless language.Ten minutes later he was a hired man."C'm on heah. 'At's all." The Backslid Baptist ...
"Mumblin' to himself and wearing the craziest rig in the car--good thing I rounded up that bird."The deputy marshal added another star to his crown. "Plumb bughouse."He cast his eye over the occupants of the car. "Back to Russia. Try some of your ideas on them Bullshevik birds."He again addressed the Wildcat."Cut out t...
Included in the tribe were a few solid citizens. Some of these were college graduates. John Running Bear, better known to the business men of The Dalles as John Franklin, left his tailored clothes at home and painted his brown body with yellow ochre. He stained his arms and face with the tribal marks of his people. He ...
Half erect and with the deck timbers almost in his grasp, time and again his feet slipped from the back of a wriggling salmon."Dog-gone you, stand still; get pacified." He hauled off and slammed a kick at a salmon which had tripped him."I'll bust you in de belly."He landed with his equator submerged by nine nervous fis...
Half asleep, the Wildcat mumbled to a buzzing fly. "'At's it. Tryin' to bust yo' brains out on de window glass. 'At's how come you ain't got none. Cravin' to git loose all de time. S'pose you git loose? Whah at would you go? Some ol' spidah'd git you de fust mile. Ca'm yo'se'f. Heah you is in de sunshine an' all warmed...
"Leave dis Pullman boy take a r'ar at de clickers.""'At's me. Hand me dem bones. C.O.D.--come on, dice! Field han's, rally round. Shoots fifty dollars. Shower down, brothers. Eagle bones, see kin you fly. Bam! I reads seven. I lets it lay. Shoots a hund'ed dollars! Fade me crazy, folks, fade me! Bam! I reads six--four....
At the livery stable Dwindle Daniels financed the rental of a light wagon and a heavy-set mule. The Wildcat gathered up the reins. "Set down fo' I starts," he advised. "Kain't tell about dese jug-heads."The pair discovered presently that the mule's maker had omitted the high gear from the animal's mechanism, and the si...
"Sure. Book him as a vag until we see who he is. Tell Jimmy to hold him on an A and B charge if any of them jail-breaking law sharks try to spring him."The Wildcat broke in with a little testimony."Cap'n, suh, I knows dat boy. He bust loose from a travellin' jail on de train comin' from Chicago. The guv'ment men ketche...
"I lets it lay! Shoots two hundred dollars. De gin dice makes de big boy sick. Fade me, ol' mule-lip. What fo' is yo' mouth draggin'?"A look of doubt began to travel across the Spindlin' Spider's features, but the moral pressure of the crowd about him forced him into the slaughter house. He counted two hundred dollars ...
The chef looked at him. "You sho' is a' ignorant niggah. Ain't you met up wid no rabbis yet?""Cain't say I is. What is dey?"In the chef's gaze was an expression of contempt. "Boy, when you sees me you sees a rabbi. I works at de rabbi business between trips. De rabbi lodge was o'ganized wid all de culled bartenders. No...
He hauled the Mud Turtle into the passage way and resurrected him from the interior of the blanket cocoon."Come on back heah," the Wildcat directed. "Stretch yo' laigs an' come on back heah whilst I 'splains about you. Take 'at ol' coat off an' put on dis white coat."The Mud Turtle removed his mud-caked blue coat and d...
The chef's gaze left the Wildcat's face for a moment and seemed to travel to some more distant point. The Wildcat's statement of his finances had aroused the rabbi's cupidity. "Come on heah," he said briefly.The three made their way up town and presently entered the door of a ramshackle structure standing midway of a b...
Launched by the rabbi's parting taunt, the Wildcat and the Mud Turtle made their way out of the ginagogue. On the street the Wildcat set the course toward Twelfth Street. His companion pounded along as best he could for a while and then voiced a protest. "What for is you got such a hot foot?""Come on heah, ol' Mud Turt...
"I don't mean monkey wid de huntin'," the Wildcat returned. "Is you got a lead pencil? 'Sposin' us marks de li'l white balls wid de dice freckles an' reads 'em when dey drops. Fust you take one time, den I takes anotheh. Us plays some mountain dominoes. Got to do sumpin', else us goes to sleep. Den like as not some rag...
With Lily beside him, he gained the level ground of the fairway. Then, over a wide expanse of golf links, the fog had lifted clear. The Wildcat saw the two Blue Fezant Nobles poking around near the Chinese tomb in search of the ball which had been lost a little while before."Come on heah, Lily." He dragged the mascot t...
Honey Tone's racing legs, impelled by an acute ambition, functioned successfully in their owner's single endeavour to lead the flying wedge of razor-bearing blood hunters by at least two jumps more than a slashin' reach. The fugitive turned into Mission Street; and here in the long stretch the saddle-coloured financier...
By dawn Honey Tone was resolved to give his schemes a run for their money. You never could tell how a scheme might turn out; and the colonization business sounded pretty good, even to its overstressed inventor.CHAPTER XVIII1.The convention of the Nobles of the Mysterious Mecca dwindled into the final stage that attends...
Honey Tone realized that rank imposes commensurate obligation before his Temple of Luck campaign had lived a week. Too much rank imposed too much obligation, and so the Swamic Church and the Faith Healing and the Palm Reading Magi and several other verbal branches of his project were discarded before the several deppit...
The Wildcat borrowed a dollar and ate supper at the lunch counter where he had met Trombone, hoping that he might again encounter that individual. Ranged about him were ten or fifteen hearty eaters; and to this group, at the termination of his own meal, he addressed his invitation to participate in the business of load...
"Trombone, us has plenty ob time. Ah 'sorbs mah nutriment in five minnits--'at leaves ten fo' de trip. Ain't et me nothin' all day, 'ceptin' breakfus' an' some san'wiches at noon time. Sho' been busy loadin' de ol' _Empire_ fo' N'Awl'uns. Dey made me de gang boss--I'se got mo' niggers dan ol' cunnel had in de Fust Serv...
Fifteen minutes later the Wildcat received a piece of blue paper. "Cap'n, suh, Ah cain't read whut de papeh says. Kin you read fo' me, please, suh?""That's a check for four thousand and eighty dollars--two hundred and four men at twenty a throw.""Lawd gawd, Lady Luck, you sho' showered down dis time!" The Wildcat's bra...
"Cap'n, suh," he said slowly, "kin me an' Lily ride wid you to New Awl'uns?--Us craves to git south.""I'll say you can. We need about nine good waiters for the trip.""Cap'n, suh, dat's me! When us starts I'se de same as nine.""You're hired. Sign on tomorrow."In his eagerness the Wildcat jerked heavily at Lily's leading...
Produced by Free Elf, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.netUnion and CommunionORTHOUGHTS ON THESONG OF SOLOMONBY J. HUDSON TAYLOR, M.R.C.S.FOREWORD BY REV. J. STUART HOLDEN, M.A._THIRD EDITION_MORGAN & SCOTT, 12 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, LONDON, E.C.CHINA INLAND MISSION, NEWIN...