Chapter I: Front Matter

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.

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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