Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE MAN NEXT DOOR

by

EMERSON HOUGH

Author of The Covered Wagon, North of 36, Etc.

Illustrated by Will Grefe

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1917, by Emerson Hough Copyright, 1916, by The Curtis Publishing Company

TO THE MEN WITH WHOM I RODE IN THE OLD DAYS

CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I. How Come Us to Move 1
II. Where We Threw In 18
III. Us Living in Town 29
IV. Us and Christmas Eve 37
V. Us and the Home Ranch 49
VI. Us and Them Better Things 60
VII. What Their Hired Man Done 69
VIII. How Old Man Wright Done Business 91
IX. Us and Their Fence 99
X. Us Being Alderman 114
XI. Us and the Freeze-Out 123
XII. Us and a Accidental Friend 129
XIII. Them and the Range Law 144
XIV. How Their Hired Man Come Back 150
XV. The Commandment That Was Broke 162
XVI. How I Was Foreman 167
XVII. Him and the Front Door 174
XVIII. How Tom Stacked Up 185
XIX. Them and Bonnie Bell 194
XX. What Our William Done 201
XXI. Her Pa's Way of Thinking 212
XXII. Me and Their Line Fence 216
XXIII. Tom and Her 220
XXIV. How Bonnie Bell Left Us All 234
XXV. Me and Them 253
XXVI. How I Went Back 260
XXVII. How I Quit Old Man Wright 267
XXVIII. The Hole in the Wall 273
XXIX. How the Game Broke 277
XXX. How It Come Out After All 289

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Facing Page "'Well,' says she, 'we never played anything for pikers, did we, dad?'" _Frontispiece_ "'Well,' says he, 'our dog is more of a trench fighter.'" 74 "'I know now what it means to be a woman and in love.'" 230 "She knowed where he carried his gun." 290

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