"When was a lonely heart more truly comforted?" _Frontispiece_
"My two assistants abandoned work to stare
open-mouthed at him." 12
"'Here is Keats back again,--he has got to stay with
you women and get l'arning if it kills him dead!'" 20
"'Genealogical' and 'irreconcilable' were child's
play to him, 'incomprehensibility,' a bagatelle." 30
"I sat wondering what if anything would be the proper
literary milk for my babes." 39
"The table was overturned, chairs were flying, bedlam
had broken loose." 41
"'By dogs, now, did you ever see anybody look as good
as me?'" 49
"'Just feel my muscle,' he said, 'Oh, I'm so nervy!'" 63
"'Fight, dogs, you haint no kin, 'F you kill one
another, taint no sin!'" 79
"'That's where I keep lookout of moonlight nights when
war is on.'" 103
"As I looked, I said to myself over and over, 'Is it
possible this is a slayer of men, an eluder and defier
of the law?'" 108
"'That 'ere little Iry is a-giving Jason the best
whipping down in the stable lot ever you seed.'" 123
"Not until she got out of the tall weeds, and into the
branch, was the joyful discovery made that nine little
new pigs followed her closely and shamefacedly." 148
"'I got a dead tree up the hollow I practice on all
the time.'" 171
"The first real snow yesterday, and the boys wild in
consequence." 173
"'Blant he rushed on 'em like a robbed she-bear,
routing 'em in no time.'" 205
"'I allow they shot me up a little too, by these here
rags on my head.'" 215
"Blant caught the dying Rich in his arms." 233
"Dag gone me, he's got use enough for little Dilsey,
by Ned!'" 245
"I kotch him at it one time." 273
"'Take it, Joe, I refuse to touch it, I have shot my
last shoot!'" 280
"He sat in church the very picture of elegance, the
real direction of his thoughts indicated by an
occasional ardent glance across the aisle." 288
"'Well, dad burn your looks, where'd you git all them
marvles you been selling?'" 298
"Nucky's voice rang out sharp and clear ... 'Make for
them spruce pines! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!'" 304