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Title: The Happy Family

Author: Bertha Muzzy Bower

Release Date: October 7, 2004 [EBook #13670]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "A man's plumb crazy to go round blatting all he
knows"]

The Happy Family

BY

B.M. BOWER

(B.M. SINCLAIR)

AUTHOR OF

"Chip of the Flying U," "The Range Dwellers," "Her Prairie
Knight," "The Lure of the Dim Trails," "The Lonesome Trail,"
"The Long Shadow," Etc.

G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

_1907, 1909, 1910, by_ STREET & SMITH.
_1910, by_ G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY.

_The Happy Family_.

To B.W.V.

_"... met the Ananias of the cow camp. I have knocked about cow
camps, mining camps, railroad and telegraph camps, and kicked
up alkali dust for many a weary mile on the desert. Yet
wherever I went I never failed to meet him. He is part and
parcel of every outfit.... He is indispensable, irresistible,
and incorrigible; and while in but few cases can he be held a
thing of beauty, he is certainly a joy forever--at least to
those who have known his type with some degree of
understanding...."_

From a letter.

CONTENTS.

ANANIAS GREEN 7
BLINK 35
MISS MARTIN'S MISSION 61
HAPPY JACK, WILD MAN 90
A TAMER OF WILD ONES 118
ANDY, THE LIAR 178
"WOLF! WOLF!" 210
FOOL'S GOLD 241
LORDS OF THE POTS AND PANS 269

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