The Touch of Abner

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o a post near the building, he strolled into the waiting-room. Seeing the station age

he accosted. "H

s he lowered his paper. "You're early, Mr.

ke and brought forth a pipe, tobacco, and knife. "I allus make a bizness of be

ly make a lot of trouble for t

use their brains more an' their legs less it'd be a da

per this morning, Mr. Andrews

rald and git a hull library every week fer one dollar a year. Ye kin find most everyt

Andrews. It has a long article on the meeting last nigh

meetin' as the feller who was there waggin' the pen. That's the

us to read what the paper had to say about it. But after what he had said about the dailies, it would not do for him

o git some corn-salve fer Tildy. She fergot it ye

afraid of train

don't know Jerry. Why, that hoss lik

urious, i

him to Ash Pint, it was so quiet there he began to pine an' pine, an' wouldn't eat nor drink. Thinkin' he was goin' to die, I brought him to tow

ietness of the country

he big tin horn and blow it close to his ears fer all I'm worth. That cheers him up a bit; but there's not

s spoke or nodded to him in passing. But this morning the ones he met seemed unusually friendly, and stopped to shake hands, and enquire after his he

retty daughter?" he asked, at the same tim

ye think I'm an old pump? If ye'r dry, come into the store, an' we'l

ght, Mr. Andrews. A man who can flash up a thousand, such as you di

the way of lawyers," Abner retorted. "But, there, I must git along

y, Mr. Andrews, I've been reading the account of last night's meeting. My, I admire your pluck. You did ce

n papers," was the repl

his one, though. Her

ket. "Thank ye, I'll read it when I git time. I

Here's a rare Havana. I know

Mr. Rackshaw?" Abner asked, as he care

and sometimes more. It all

uite a

ween two and three hundred

eh? I kin hardly afford to keep me o

save, Mr. Andrews, and have a nice sum t

fork over fer that Home, Mr

services free; that wi

in wha

as legal advice, and other important matters to be

same as you, an' so the poor little orphans will be housed, an' clothed, an' fed by the advice an' good wishes of all. It sartinly will be a great in

important business on hand, which must be attended to at once. And, besides, I must not

ent. Finding that he had ten minutes to spare, he seated himself upon a box on the platform, and drew forth the copy of The Live Wire. As he did so his h

nuthin'. He's fishin' fer somethin', all right. But, skiddy-me-shins, he'll have

ritten a most stirring article, and had recorded every word that Abner had uttered, including his tilt with Isaac Dimock. Then followed a list of those who had

gust. "Is that all Whittles gave, an'

he train blew.<