The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by B.M. Bower
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONESOME TRAIL AND OTHER STORIES***
E-text prepared by Al Haines
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 Happy Family, The Long Shadow, etc.
New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
1904
THE LONESOME TRAIL
FIRST AID TO CUPID
WHEN THE COOK FELL ILL
THE LAMB
THE SPIRIT OF THE RANGE
THE REVELER
THE UNHEAVENLY TWINS
PART ONE
A man is very much like a horse. Once thoroughly frightened by something he meets on the road, he will invariably shy at the same place afterwards, until a wisely firm master leads him perforce to the spot and proves beyond all doubt that the danger is of his own imagining; after which he will throw up his head and deny that he ever was afraid--and be quite amusingly sincere in the denial.
It is true of every man with high-keyed nature, a decent opinion of hims