"Along these woods in storm and sun the busy people go. " THE tin-peddler has gone out of the West. Amiable gossip and sharp trader that he was, his visits once brought a sharp business grapple to the farmer’s wife and daughters, after which, as the man of trade was repacking his unsold wares, a […]

"Like the Main-Travelled Road of Life, it is traversed by many classes of people. " UNCLE ETHAN had a theory that a man’s character could be told by the way he sat in a wagon seat. "A mean man sets right plumb in the middle o’ the seat, as much as to say, ‘Walk, goldarn […]