| 1. |
“That every star was an eye looking down on me with pity.” |
(Frontispiece.) |
| 2. |
Character title. |
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PAGE |
| 3. |
Betsy Gaskins |
7 |
| 4. |
Initial T |
11 |
| 5. |
Jobe Gaskins |
13 |
| 6. |
Initial M |
15 |
| 7. |
“We both hankered” |
17 |
| 8. |
“I did git him started to readin” |
19 |
| 9. |
“That canderdate feller” |
20 |
| 10. |
Tailpiece |
21 |
| 11. |
“Me a knittin, him a settin and studyin” |
23 |
| 12. |
“‘Talkin like them blame Populists’” |
26 |
| 13. |
“I waked not until broad daylite” |
28 |
| 14. |
“‘Feedin-feedin, of course,’ says he” |
29 |
| 15. |
“‘Do you promis?’ says I, girlish like” |
30 |
| 16. |
“I sot down, lookin him square in the face” |
31 |
| 17. |
Bill Bowers |
32 |
| 18. |
Ornamental tailpiece |
37 |
| 19. |
“‘Ide vote the Dimicrat ticket at the very next township election’” |
39 |
| 20. |
“They waked me up at the dead hour of midnite” |
41 |
| 21. |
“That very sheet of paper” |
45 |
| 22. |
Congressman Richer |
46 |
| 23. |
“Jobe works and sweats” |
47 |
| 24. |
Ornamental tailpiece |
48 |
| 25. |
“Jobe and me both sot down and cried” |
50 |
| 26. |
“Started for town bright and airly” |
54 |
| 27. |
“Jobe and me counted up how much we had” |
57 |
| 28. |
“That nite I put another patch on his pants” |
62 |
| 29. |
“He explained to Mr. Jones” |
63 |
| 30. |
Ornamental tailpiece |
64 |
| 31. |
Ornamental tailpiece |
68 |
| 32. |
“Peekin through a crack” |
70 |
| 33. |
“Jist a layin it off with his hands” |
71 |
| 34. |
“‘Mistur Court, Gaskins is here’” |
74 |
| 35. |
“‘I ’bject’” |
76 |
| 36. |
“‘I want to prove to you, Mistur Judge’” |
79 |
| 37. |
“‘This is the law, whether it is justice or not’” |
81 |
| 38. |
“Jobe and me sot there dazed like” |
82 |
| 39. |
Aunt Jane |
84 |
| 40. |
“He would call him ‘Billy,’ in honor of the next president” |
85 |
| 41. |
“Before Jobe could git up, William hit him agin” |
86 |
| 42. |
Ornamental tailpiece |
88 |
| 43. |
“He would rather pay seven per cent. than six, in order to support a sound money basis” |
90 |
| 44. |
“‘Law or no law,’ says I” |
91 |
| 45. |
“‘Payin it in gold to keep your party in power is up-hill bizness’” |
92 |
| 46. |
“‘John Sherman is the greatest financier on airth’” |
95 |
| 47. |
Ornamental tailpiece |
96 |
| 48. |
“‘Now, Betsy, you see what kind of a party you belong to’” |
98 |
| 49. |
“So I went to work and cut out the headin” |
100 |
| 50. |
“‘It is all over, Betsy,’ says he” |
101 |
| 51. |
“That nite he slept in the barn” |
103 |
| 52. |
“‘Jobe Gaskins, you make another move!’” |
105 |
| 53. |
“‘Are you mad, Betsy?’ says he” |
108 |
| 54. |
“Jobe was on his knees in the middle of the bed” |
113 |
| 55. |
“A strait, influential, leadin Republican officeholder” |
115 |
| 56. |
“Lots of fellers jist like him” |
116 |
| 57. |
“Jobe he flew up” |
119 |
| 58. |
“It wasent anything onusual for a county officer to make all he could” |
120 |
| 59. |
“‘Hadent we all ort to be satisfied so long as bonds sell well?’” |
121 |
| 60. |
“‘Times are never hard under a gold basis,’ Jobe says” |
122 |
| 61. |
“They whispered and snickered at my straw hat and Jobe’s linen coat” |
125 |
| 62. |
“He said the rich all belong to church” |
126 |
| 63. |
Harvesting |
129 |
| 64. |
“I was puttin salve on Jobe’s hands” |
130 |
| 65. |
The hand that voted “the strait ticket” |
131 |
| 66. |
“Some good men in case of labor trouble” |
133 |
| 67. |
“Some of the little children are pretty” |
136 |
| 68. |
“Jobe took what hay he could spare” |
138 |
| 69. |
“They are kept so busy legislatin” |
139 |
| 70. |
“A huntin them overhalls” |
142 |
| 71. |
“I had sot down and went to churnin” |
143 |
| 72. |
“The Dimicratic bloomers” |
146 |
| 73. |
“‘Hello, mistur’” |
147 |
| 74. |
“‘We ketch em a comin and we ketch em a goin’” |
148 |
| 75. |
“I seen him a comin up the lane” |
151 |
| 76. |
“The fust time for nigh onto twenty years” |
153 |
| 77. |
“Billot jist laughed at him” |
155 |
| 78. |
“Jobe he got mad and called Billot a Populist” |
156 |
| 79. |
Ornamental tailpiece—sunset |
157 |
| 80. |
“Lawyers a talkin and a laffin” |
159 |
| 81. |
“‘Mistur Moore, how long has it been since you quit advocatin the use of good, old-fashioned greenbacks?’” |
161 |
| 82. |
“‘Lawyer—Dimicratic lawyer and polertician’” |
164 |
| 83. |
“He carried a banner” |
167 |
| 84. |
“I got a straw and tickled his nose” |
171 |
| 85. |
Ornamental tailpiece |
179 |
| 86. |
“It was nearly mornin when I heerd the patriotic sounds of the fish-horn” |
181 |
| 87. |
“He looked kind a pale” |
182 |
| 88. |
“‘Give us a tune, Jobe’” |
183 |
| 89. |
“‘This is not accordin to contract’” |
184 |
| 90. |
“We hitched in front of Urfer’s big dry goods store” |
186 |
| 91. |
“‘Ready’” |
187 |
| 92. |
“‘I am a banker, sir, a banker‘” |
190 |
| 93. |
“He made sich a fine argament for gold and agin other money” |
193 |
| 94. |
Little Jane |
196 |
| 95. |
“I could nearly see her little dimpled fingers pattin the airth around the roots of that little bush” |
197 |
| 96. |
“‘Mamma, ... how pritty!’” |
198 |
| 97. |
Ornamental tailpiece |
199 |
| 98. |
“Jobe jist lays and moans” |
200 |
| 99. |
“I have to chop all the wood” |
201 |
| 100. |
“‘Out with it, Bill; we are prepared for the wust’” |
203 |
| 101. |
“‘Ile tell you, Betsy. Ive made up my mind to try them Populists hereafter’” |
205 |
| 102. |
“‘O, Lord, is there no other way to do?’” |
209 |
| 103. |
“He drawed me over in his arms and kissed me” |
212 |
| 104. |
“He was wipin his eyes and blowin his nose as he went towards town” |
213 |
| 105. |
“Then sot down and cried and kept a cryin every little bit all mornin” |
214 |
| 106. |
“They pulled me away from the winder” |
218 |
| 107. |
“At all the gates around the big fence they had signs stuck up” |
221 |
| 108. |
“I asked him for something to eat” |
222 |
| 109. |
“‘Well, old man, sich things hadent ort to be’” |
225 |
| 110. |
“I slipped over and put my face agin the glass” |
229 |
| 111. |
“The feller turned around and looked black at me” |
233 |
| 112. |
“I have to work hard in this place” |
236 |
| 113. |
“One nice little place that I thought I would rent as soon as I got my first week’s pay” |
239 |
| 114. |
“I worked there three weeks” |
241 |
| 115. |
“Everything was cold and dark” |
242 |
| 116. |
Initial M—Hattie Moore |
244 |
| 117. |
“He teched me on the shoulder” |
247 |
| 118. |
“I got onto a freight train” |
248 |
| 119. |
“Pushing back the hair of the sick woman, leaned over and kissed her on the forehead” |
250 |
| 120. |
“There lay Mrs. Gaskins” |
252 |
| 121. |
“There again was the face of that little girl and the face of an old man” |
253 |
| 122. |
“In the morning there was found a white-haired man” |
254 |
| 123. |
Tailpiece—the rose-bush on the grave |
255 |
| 124. |
Initial B—the editor |
256 |
| 125. |
“Behold! See that money!” |
265 |
| 127. |
The world’s oppressor |
274 |
