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...Vagabond will indulge this morning in a bit of introspection which will soon dissolve, like a liberal club's debates, into airy persiflage. There are times in the lives of all men when there comes an irrestible urge for action, when they must get them hence. And there are also times when the sedentary life, with pipe, Tom Collinses, an arm chair and all the other appurtenances of leisure seem the only thing, indeed when they are the only thing. On the threshold of such an epoch the Vagabond has arrived, Dunhill in hand. He is sick of wastin' leather...
When several numbers ol TIME were issued without any mention of our book I became a bit vexed because of Stokes having failed to send you a copy of Gun Notches in time, and wrote to them about...
Otheman Stevens in the Los Angeles Examiner: "Some time ago a story of Billy the Kid was issued and called a 'Saga.' If that was a Saga Gun Notches is an Iliad, also an Odyssey. The story of a prairie fire is a bit of an exquisite word painting as ever was written; the incident when Bill Greene at La Cananea and Tom would have taken the State of Sonora from Mexico if Tom could have hog-tied General Kosterlitzsky is a new matter of history...
...First deal: sent with a dime to buy a quart of milk in a glass pitcher, he received a silver 3C-piece in change. Returning he tripped on the curb, fell, bit his tongue, broke the pitcher, spilt the milk, and swallowed the 3c-piece...
...political qualifications, Governor Murray undoubtedly possesses personal characteristics of a type calculated to raise him in popular esteem. His vigorous denunciation of international banking may lack some of the elements of sound criticism, but it goes straight to the heart of the average man who is bewildered and a bit suspicious about where his money goes. The farmer, always seeking for a champion, sees in "Alfalfa Bill" the product of a western agricultural state who is instinctively hostile to the urban plutocracy of the East. The fact that during the past summer in Oklahoma he invariably wore a white cotton...