Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 / 2008-06-27 00:00:00

EBOOK A DEAL IN WHEAT AND OTHER STORIES ***


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A DEAL IN WHEAT

And Other Stories Of The New And Old West

By FRANK NORRIS

_Illustrated by Remington, Leyendecker, Hitchcock and Hooper_

1903

[Illustration: "'Sell A Thousand May At One-Fifty,' Vociferated The Bear
Broker"]


CONTENTS

A Deal in Wheat
The Wife of Chino
A Bargain with Peg-Leg
The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock
A Memorandum of Sudden Death
Two Hearts That Beat as One
The Dual Personality of Slick Dick Nickerson
The Ship That Saw a Ghost
The Ghost in the Crosstrees
The Riding of Felipe


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"'Sell a Thousand May at One-Fifty,' Vociferated the Bear Broker"
Caught in the Circle. The last stand of three troopers and a scout
overtaken by a band of hostile Indians.
"'Ere's 'Ell to Pay!"
"'My Curse Is on Her Who Next Kisses You'"


A DEAL IN WHEAT

I. THE BEAR--WHEAT AT SIXTY-TWO
As Sam Lewiston backed the horse into the shafts of his backboard and
began hitching the tugs to the whiffletree, his wife came out from the
kitchen door of the house and drew near, and stood for some time at the
horse's head, her arms folded and her apron rolled around them. For a
long moment neither spoke. They had talked over the situation so long
and so comprehensively the night before that there seemed to be nothing
more to say.
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