Category: Humour
When this October comes, twenty years will be sped since the author of these Western tales sat down one evening to begin his first tale of the West, and--will you forgive him a preamble of gossip, of retrospection? Time steps in between the now that is and the then that was wi...
Yes, she indulged ’em. The valley indulged ’em right along. They was so old and so harmless. Kultus Jake and Frisco Baldy was their names--all the names I ever heard for ’em--an...
4. Part 4The cabin on Spit-Cat Creek lies lonely among the high pastures, and looks down to further loneliness across many slanting levels of pine-tops. These descend successively in smo...
8. Part 8We now made a new descent and ascent, but had no luck, and by three o’clock we stood upon a lofty, wet, slipping ledge that fell away on three sides, sheer or broken, to the sum...
13. Part 13“There’s forty-eight places named Washington now,” says he. “I’ve looked it up. There ought to be just one. The capital of the United States. And the map is pitted with ’em like...
9. Part 9“I don’t know as I ever said that.” A steep gulley in the road obliged him to put on the break and release it before he continued: “I’d not consider I had the right to do a man...
7. Part 7“I could a-showed you sheep. Rams. Horns as big as your thigh--bigger’n _your_ thigh. That was before tenderfeet came in and spoiled this country. Counted seven thousand on that...
14. Part 14“They have done worse than that to me,” he said ruefully. “They have lost me my season’s job. The party I was to take out read them laws same as you did, and they stayed back Ea...
10. Part 10“We don’t know what your name is, and we don’t care. As to what you’ve done, that’s as well known to you as it is to us, and you’ve got gall to ask, when we’ve caught you right...
15. Part 15So now I understood clearly that it was he who made their plans, timed all their comings and goings, and that they, bitterly as they disliked leaving the water until they were r...
11. Part 11“She’s there!” thundered the freighter. His hand shot down, his head tilted up, and out came the bun again. A neighbor moved a gentle elbow against the freighter’s ribs, and sil...
6. Part 6I seen was the captain come ragin’ out of his gate. He went over to the officers’ club and I knowed it was particular, for y’u could have stood a vase of flowers on his muss-tas...
5. Part 5“Quite a little thing has took place just now about that money. Don’t jump for I am staying with it as you said to and I am liable to be staying with it as long as necessary but...
2. Part 2This book is three years late; the first tale designed for it was published in 1901. Its follower should even now be ready. It is not yet begun; it exists merely in notes and in...
3. Part 3It was the doctor who now furnished information that would have relieved any reasonable man from a sense of failure. The doctor was excited because his view of our faith in Indi...
1. Part 1When this October comes, twenty years will be sped since the author of these Western tales sat down one evening to begin his first tale of the West, and--will you forgive him a...