FARO NELL
AND HER FRIENDS
WOLFVILLE STORIES
BY
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS
AUTHOR OF "WOLFVILLE," "WOLFVILLE DAYS," "WOLFVILLE NIGHTS," "WOLFVILLE
FOLKS," "THE BOSS," "THE SUNSET TRAIL," "THE APACHES OF
NEW YORK," "THE STORY OF PAUL JONES," ETC.
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ILLUSTRATIONS BY
W. HERBERT DUNTON AND
J. N. MARCHAND
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1913, By
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
Faro Nell and Her Friends
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO
WILLIAM EUGENE LEWIS
AS MARKING
MY APPRECIATION OF
WHAT QUALITIES PLACE HIM HIGH
AMONG THE BEST EDITORS
BEST BROTHERS AND BEST MEN
I'VE EVER MET
A. H. L.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I | DEAD SHOT BAKER | 7 |
| II | OLD MAN ENRIGHT'S UNCLE | 39 |
| III | CYNTHIANA, PET-NAMED ORIGINAL SIN | 61 |
| IV | OLD MONTE, OFFICIAL DRUNKARD | 99 |
| V | HOW THE MOCKING BIRD WAS WON | 126 |
| VI | THAT WOLFVILLE-RED DOG FOURTH | 148 |
| VII | PROPRIETY PRATT, HYPNOTIST | 176 |
| VIII | THAT TURNER PERSON | 198 |
| IX | RED MIKE | 225 |
| X | HOW TUTT SHOT TEXAS THOMPSON | 260 |
| XI | THE FUNERAL OF OLD HOLT | 295 |
| XII | SPELLING BOOK BEN | 320 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE |
| We makes four trips back and forth between Wolfville and Red Dog, crackin' off our good old '45's at irreg'lar intervals, Faro Nell on her calico pony as the Goddess of Liberty, bustin' away with the rest. . . . Frontispiece | 170 |
| We're all discussin' the doin's of this yere road-agent when Dan gets back from Red-Dog, an' the result is he unloads his findin's on a dead kyard. | 18 |
| Dead Shot stops short at this hitch in the discussion, by reason of a bullet from the Lightin' Bug's pistol which lodges in his lung. | 28 |
| The second evening Old Stallins is with us, Dan Boggs an' Texas Thompson uplifts his aged sperits with the "Love Dance of the Catamounts." | 42 |
| "It's you, Oscar, that I want," observes Miss Bark. "I concloodes, upon sober second thought, to accept your offer of marriage." | 90 |
| A couple of Enright's riders comes a packin' a live bobcat into town. | 118 |
| Turkey Track, seein' he's afoot an' thirty miles from his home ranch pulls his gun an' sticks up the mockin' bird's buckboard. | 138 |
| We sees the Turner person aboard an' wishes him all kinds of luck. | 222 |
| "What's the subject?" Peets asks. "That, my friend, is the 'Linden in October,'" returns Mike, as though he's a showin' us a picture of Heaven's front gate. | 238 |
| "Him an' Annalinda shore do constitoote a picture. 'Thar's a pa'r to draw to,' says Nell to Texas, her eyes like brown diamonds." | 280 |
| Thar's a bombardment which sounds like a battery of gatlings, the whole punctchooated by a whirlwind of "whoops!" | 316 |
| "Onless girls is barred," declares Faro Nell, from her perch on the chair "I've a notion to take a hand." | 336 |
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