This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...Despite this heavy loss, the store prospered and was moved up town into more central and commodious quarters. Roger McKee for the fifteen succeeding years that he lived was a familiar figure on the street as he passed between his store and his home. But rarely was he seen elsewhere except at his place ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...Despite this heavy loss, the store prospered and was moved up town into more central and commodious quarters. Roger McKee for the fifteen succeeding years that he lived was a familiar figure on the street as he passed between his store and his home. But rarely was he seen elsewhere except at his place of business and sometimes at church. He was a man who had felt the heavy hand of misfortune and showed the scars; and while courteous to all, and especially engaging to customers in his store, he was inclined to withdraw socially within his own home. Between fifty and sixty, spare, somewhat bowed and lame, gray of head, a keen colorless "face and sharp black eye, shrewd, persuasive, polished, he was devoted to the one purpose, of making his business successful. A "WICKBD PARTNER.." His partner and financial backer was a middleaged bachelor who came from the same town. John Chiswell was something of a valetudinarian, inclined to be irascible, but, like McKee, a man of more education and polish than the average in that community. He boarded at the village tavern. He spent a good deal of time at the store, though not assuming any duties in connection with it; but at times he found the days too long. He bought a fine horse and rode about the country for health and recreation. One spring he thought he would try fishing as a means of passing the time; so he procured a handsome tackle from the east, and one bright morning set out with a bucket of live minnows, caught for him by a boy who was glad to earn a silver dime, for a pool half a mile or so below the village where the water was very deep and the biggest fish were supposed to be in hiding. A TIRED YOUNG WALTON. On the hill across the river lived an old couple Who had been for...
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