Sketches From Texas Siftings (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sketches From Texas Siftings He can talk on any subject, although he may not know much about it, but what little he knows he knows, and he lets you know that he knows it. He may be giving his views on the financial policy of the British government, or he may only be telling you of what, in his opinion, is good for a boil, but he will do it with an air and a tone that leaves the matter beyond dispute. He is at home everywhere, and he never seems out of place wherever you find him, although we do not re member ever to have found him in church. Sitting on his gripsack at a way-station, waiting for a train six hours behind time, and abusing the railroad officials from brakesman to president, with a profuse and ro bust profanity that gives the air a sulphurous odor for miles around, he seems in perfect keeping with the sur roundings. The scene would be as incomplete without him as a horse race without a yellow dog on the track. When the drummer gets into a railroad train, if alone, he occupies two seats. One he sits on, and on the other he piles up his baggage and overcoat, and tries to look as if they didn't belong to him, but to an other man who had just stepped into the smoking-car and would be back directly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.