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A Straight Deal: Or, the Ancient Grudge (Classic Reprint)
A Straight Deal Or the Ancient Grudge - Classic Reprint Author:Owen Wister A STRAIGHT DEAL — OR, — THE ANCIENT GRUDGE — CHAPTER I — concerning one's letter box — Publish any sort of conviction related to these morose days through which we are living, and letters will shower upon you like leaves in October. No matter what your conviction be, it will shake both yeas and nays loose from various minds where they were hanging re... more »ady to fall. Never was a time when so many brains rustled with hates and panaceas that would sail wide into the air at the lightest jar. Try it and see. Say that you believe in God, or do not; say that Democracy is the key to the millennium, or the survival of the unfittest; that Labor is worse than the Kaiser, or better; that drink is a demon, or that wine ministers to the
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPTER PARK; I Concerning One's Letter Box 1; II What the Postman Brought 5; HI In Front of a Bulletin Board 29; IV "My Army of Spies" 39; V The Ancient Grudge 53; VI Who Is Without Sin? 59; VII Tarred with the Same Stick 71; VIII History Astigmatic S3; LX Concerning a Complex 97; X Jackstraws 105; XI Some Family Scraps 121; XII On the Ragged Edge 139; XIII Benefits Forgot 173; XIV England the Slacker! LS3 XV Rude Britanndv, Crude Columbla 203; XVI An International Imposture 253; XVII Paint 267; XVIII The Will to Friendship - or the Will to; Hate? 275; XIX Lion and Cub 283
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