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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Subjects: Wichita (Kan.) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LAWYER My Memory begins with my fifth year and on the Fourth of July. This was centennial day -- 1876. My grandfather had limited my allowance of fire-crackers to a single bunch. I was in rebellion and had set out across the prairie for home crying. My curiosity overcame my grief in this fashion. In the bright sunlight I detected long filaments streaming away from my eyes in whichever direction I looked. This natural phenomenon had arrested me, and I was examining it scientifically, when I discovered an assembly of citizens some distance away. I forgot my grievance and the filaments aforesaid, and made my way into the crowd and through it. Two or three men were laying a corner stone. It was a church crowd. There was prayer and song. After that my memory winked out for a period of nine months. This lack of continuity in the memory of children, I suppose, is the usual thing. Oddly my memory awoke again in connection with another assembly of citizens. The big Arkansas river was on a tear. The melting mountain snows filled its shallow banks with a rushing, boiling flood, harmless enough in itself. But heavy rains in Central Kansas had given the little Arkansas river all it could hold. The flood in the larger river dammed back the waters in the smaller river and turned them out on the town. There was tremendous excitement, of course. The fire-bell was sounded. Citizens rushed to the little river and threw up embankments. But these were overborne by the flood and the people were soon movipij into second stories and shouting across strai...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548764749
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 228
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 390 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548764743
  • Publisher Date: 10 Nov 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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