The Happy Family by B.M. Bower
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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 som