The Code of the Mountains

The Code of the Mountains

The Code of the MountainsThis morning the boy from the forks of Troublesome Creek had back his...
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Author: Buck, Charles Neville,1879-1957
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The Code of the Mountains

The Code of the Mountains

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The Code of the Mountains

CHF 11.83 CHF 5.91
Author: Buck, Charles Neville,1879-1957
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Code of the Mountains

This morning the boy from the forks of Troublesome Creek had back his name once more. It was not a distinguished name, nor one to be flaunted in pride of race or achievement. On the contrary, it was a synonym for violent law-breaking and in the homely parlance of the Cumberland ridges, where certain infractions are condoned, it stood for "pizen meanness." Generations of Spooners before him had taken up the surname and carried it like runners in a relay raceoften into evil ways. Many had laid down their lives and name with abruptness and violence. Tradition said that of the latter class were the Spooners, but Newt Spooner had no occasion to probe the remote past for a record of turpitude. It lay before him inscribed in a round clerical hand on the ledger which the warden of the Frankfort Penitentiary was just closing. Though the Governor's clemency had expunged the red charge of murder set against his name at the tender age of eighteen, there was another record which the Governor could not erase. A sunken grave bore testimony in a steep mountainside burial-ground back in "Bloody Breathitt," where dead weed stalks rattled and tangled ropes of fox-grapes bore their fruit in due season. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 38498
Author: Buck, Charles Neville
Release Date: Jan 5, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Gage, George W., 1887-1957

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