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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE BOSS OP THE " BUSTERS " "If you don't like our looks nor ain't stuck on our kind, Git back with the dames in the next car behind." N and on went the yelping staccato of the Honorable Pulaski D. Britt. The Honorable Pulaski D. was discoursing on his favorite topic, and his voice was heard above the rattle and jangle of the shaky old passenger-coach that jolted behind some freight-cars. " Forty years ago I rolled nigh onto a million feet into that brook there!" shouted the lumber baron of the Umcolcus. His knotted, hairy fist wagged under the young man's nose as he pointed at the car window, his unwholesome breath fanned warmly on Wade's cheek, and when he crowded over to look into the summer-dried stream his bristly chin-whiskers tickled his seat-mate's ear. The September day was muggy and human contact disquieting. Wade shrank nearer the open window. The Honorable Pulaski did not notice the shrinking. He was accustomed to crowd folks. His self-assertiveness expected them to get out of the way. "Yes, sir, nigh onto a million in one spring, and half of it' down pine' and sounder'n a hound's tooth. Nothing here now but sleeper stuff. It's a good many miles to the nearest saw-log, and that's where I'm cutting onJerusalem. I tell you, I've peeled some territory in forty years, young man." Wade looked at the red tongue licking lustfully between blue lips, and then gazed on the ragged, bush- grown wastes on either side. While he had been crowding men the Honorable Pulaski had been just as industriously crowding the forest off God's acres. The "chock" of the axe sounded in his abrupt sentences, the rasp of saws in his voice. "We left big stumps those days." The hairy fist indicated the rotten monuments of moss-covered punk shouldering over the dwar...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548062944
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 252
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 589 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548062943
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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