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THE MAN NEXT DOOR

EMERSON HOUGH

TO THE MEN WITH WHOM I RODE IN THE OLD DAYS

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I - How Come Us to Move

II - Where We Threw In

III - Us Living in Town

IV - Us and Christmas Eve

V - Us and the Home Ranch

VI - Us and Them Better Things

VII - What Their Hired Man Done

VIII - How Old Man Wright Done Business

IX - Us and Their Fence

X - Us Being Alderman

XI - Us and the Freeze-Out

XII - Us and a Accidental Friend

XIII - Them and the Range Law

XIV - How Their Hired Man Come Back

XV - The Commandment That Was Broke

XVI - How I Was Foreman

XVII - Him and the Front Door

XVIII - How Tom Stacked Up

XIX - Them and Bonnie Bell

XX - What Our William Done

XXI - Her Pa's Way of Thinking

XXII - Me and Their Line Fence

XXIII - Tom and Her

XXIV - How Bonnie Bell Left Us All

XXV - Me and Them

XXVI - How I Went Back

XXVII - How I Quit Old Man Wright

XXVIII - The Hole in the Wall

XXIX - How the Game Broke

XXX - How It Come Out After All