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Title: A Man and a Woman

Author: Stanley Waterloo

Release Date: June 28, 2005 [EBook #16143]

Language: English

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A MAN AND A WOMAN

By STANLEY WATERLOO

[A NEW EDITION]

Published by

Way & Williams

Chicago

MDCCCXCVII

Copyright, 1892, by Stanley Waterloo

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I PROLOGUE
II CLOSE TO NATURE
III BOY, BIRD, AND SNAKE
IV GROWING UP WITH THE COUNTRY
V GRIM-VISAGED WAR
VI THE SPEARING OF ALFRED
VII HOW FICTION MADE FACT
VIII NEW FORCES AT WORK
IX MRS. POTIPHAR
X THE BUILDING OF THE FENCE
XI SETTLING WITH WOODELL
XII INCLINATION AGAINST CONSCIENCE
XIII FAREWELL TO THE FENCE
XIV A RUGGED LOST SHEEP
XV A STRANGE WORLD
XVI THE REALLY UGLY DUCKLING
XVII "EH, BUT SHE'S WINSOME"
XVIII THE WOMAN
XIX PURGATORY
XX TWO FOOLS
XXI "MY LITTLE RHINOCEROS-BIRD"
XXII TWO FOOLS STILL
XXIII JUST A PANG
XXIV "AS TO THOSE OTHERS"
XXV NATURE AGAIN
XXVI ADVENTURES MANIFOLD
XXVII THE HOUSE WONDERFUL
XXVIII THE APE
XXIX THE FIRST DISTRICT
XXX THE NINTH WARD
XXXI THEIR FOOLISH WAYS
XXXII THE LAW OF NATURE
XXXIII WHITEST ASHES

A MAN AND A WOMAN.

CHAPTER I.

PROLOGUE.

But for a recent occurrence I should certainly not be telling the story
of a friend, or, rather, I should say, of two friends of mine. What
that occurrence was I will not here indicate--it is unnecessary; but it
has not been without its effect upon my life and plans. If it be asked
by those who may read these pages under what circumstances it became
possible for me to acquire such familiarity with certain scenes and
incidents in the lives of one man and one woman,--scenes and incidents
which, from their very nature, were such that no third person could
figure in them,--I have only to explain that Grant Harlson and I were
friends from boyh