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The Gay-Cat; The Story of a Road-Kid and His Dog
The GayCat The Story of a RoadKid and His Dog Author:Patrick Casey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: The H.K. Fly Company Subjects: Fiction / Classics History / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of th... more »e original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV SLIM The Kid fled along the road wKere it dipped down between hop-fields that were a thousand leafy trellises curtaining off the peeping sun. In the flat of the valley near the river was the town. As he approached the town he saw, standing to one side of the road, a little one-storied structure with a corrugated-iron roof. So tiny was the structure that it looked like a tool-house. But the Kid saw that it was more than a tool-house. In the exact center of its front door was a square aperture barred with vertical black rods of iron. "The town lock-up!" breathed the Kid. "Come here, Gay-cat!" His tail snuggling his back in sudden fright, the dog crept to the boy's side. So the two, boy and dog, slunk by that tiny structure. The boy was a hobo, an outcast. He had all a hobo's fear of the lawful instruments, both animate and inanimate, of that society from which, as a hobo, he was cast out. The town beyond was a town of four buildings. There was a general merchandise store, a motion-picture theatre, a saloon and, a little apart from these, a yellow-painted shack that looked like a railroad station. All the buildings were labeled with the same name: "J. Curtis Haines"; but the yellow-painted shack had the glory of the additional words: "Ranch Office." That shack stood back from the road in a field overgrown with tall grass and rank weeds and thistles. In the clear gravel sweep ...« less