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    Goat-Feathers
    Goat-Feathers
    Goat-Feathers
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    Goat-Feathers

    By Ellis Parker Butler

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Ellis Parker Butler

    Ellis Parker Butler (1869–1937) was an American author of more than thirty books and two thousand stories and essays. His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. Despite the enormous volume of his work, Butler was, for most of his life, only a part-time author. He worked full-time as a banker and was very active in his local community. A founding member of both the Dutch Treat Club and the Authors League of America, Butler was an always-present force in the New York City literary scene. He died in Williamsville, Massachusetts.

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      Goat-Feathers - Ellis Parker Butler

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Goat-Feathers, by Ellis Parker Butler

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      Title: Goat-Feathers

      Author: Ellis Parker Butler

      Release Date: March 22, 2009 [EBook #28389]

      Language: English

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      GOAT-FEATHERS

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      Goat-Feathers

      GOAT-FEATHERS

      No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all of us, and I am no different. I'm starting out now to tell the bitter, agonizing truth about myself, but before I am through I shall probably be lying at the rate of a mile a minute and cracking myself up something awful! A man can tell only so much truth; then he begins to wabble.

      The truth is, I ought to be making as much money as Robert W. Chambers, and winning prizes of honor like Ernest Poole, and I'm not. I ought to be better known as a humorist than George Ade and Mark Twain rolled into one, and I'm not. The trouble with me is that I am always too ready and eager to break away and go gathering goat-feathers. If it had not been for that I might be a millionaire or the President of the United States or the leading American Author, bound in Red Russia leather. I might have been a

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