The Way of a Man

by Emerson Hough

Overview

Book Excerpt: ...d Satan offered, I spurred him back from the gate and rode him hard down toward Wallingford. Of course he picked up a stone en route. Two of us held his head while Billings the blacksmith fished out the stone and tapped the shoe nails tight. After that I had time to look around.As I did so I saw approaching a gentleman who was looking with interest at my mount. He was one of the most striking men I have ever seen, a stranger as I could see, for I knew each family on both sides the Blue Ridge as far up the valley as White Sulphur."A grand animal you have there, sir," said he, accosting Me. "I did not know his like existed in this country.""As well in this as in any country," said I tartly. He smiled at this."You know his breeding?""Klingwalla out of Bonnie Waters.""No wonder he's vicious," said the stranger, calmly."Ah, you know something of the English strains," said I. He shrugged his shoulders. "As much as that," he commented indifferently.Ther...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775561453
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	10/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	474 KB

About the Author

Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels.Hough was born in Newton, Iowa on June 28, 1857. He was in Newton High School's first graduating class of three in 1875. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1880 and later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882. His first article, "Far From The Madding Crowd," was published in Forest and Stream in 1882.