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    "Hell fer Sartain" and Other Stories
    "Hell fer Sartain" and Other Stories
    "Hell fer Sartain" and Other Stories
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    "Hell fer Sartain" and Other Stories

    By John Fox, Jr.

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    The stories include: ON HELL-FER-SARTAIN CREEK, THROUGH THE GAP, A TRICK O' TRADE, GRAYSON'S BABY, COURTIN' ON CUTSHIN, THE MESSAGE IN THE SAND, THE SENATOR'S LAST TRADE, PREACHIN' ON KINGDOM-COME, THE PASSING OF ABRAHAM SHIVERS, and A PURPLE RHODODENDRON. According to Wikipedia: "Born in Stony Point, Kentucky to John William Fox, Sr., and Minerva Worth Carr, Fox studied English at Harvard University. He graduated in 1883 before becoming a reporter in New York City. After working for both New York Times and the New York Sun, he published a successful serialization of his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in Century magazine in 1892. Two moderately successful short story collections followed, as well as his first conventional novel, The Kentuckians in 1898. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders." Six years later he traveled to Asia to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903, 1904, 1908, and 1909 respectively. Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's Bluegrass region, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455390601
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      "Hell fer Sartain" and Other Stories - John Fox, Jr.

      `HELL FER SARTAIN' AND OTHER STORIES BY JOHN FOX, JR.

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Westerns by John Fox, Jr.:

      Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories

      Crittenden

      Cumberland Vendetta

      The Heart of the Hills

      In Happy Valley

      A Knight of the Cumberland

      The Last Stetson

      The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

      A Mountain Europa

      The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

      feedback welcome: info@samizdat.com

      visit us at samizdat.com

      TO MY BROTHER JAMES                                               

      ON HELL-FER-SARTAIN CREEK

      THROUGH THE GAP

      A TRICK O' TRADE

      GRAYSON'S BABY

      COURTIN' ON CUTSHIN

      THE MESSAGE IN THE SAND

      THE SENATOR'S LAST TRADE

      PREACHIN' ON KINGDOM-COME

      THE PASSING OF ABRAHAM SHIVERS

      A PURPLE RHODODENDRON

      ON HELL-FER-SARTAIN CREEK

      Thar was a dancin'-party Christmas night on ``Hell fer Sartain.''  Jes tu'n up the fust crick beyond the bend thar, an' climb onto a stump, an' holler about ONCE, an' you'll see how the name come.  Stranger, hit's HELL fer sartain!  Well, Rich Harp was thar from the head- waters, an' Harve Hall toted Nance Osborn clean across the Cumberlan'. Fust one ud swing Nance, an' then t'other.  Then they'd take a pull out'n the same bottle o' moonshine, an'--fust one an' then t'other--they'd swing her agin.  An' Abe Shivers a-settin' thar by the fire a-bitin' his thumbs!

      Well, things was sorter whoopin', when somebody ups an' tells Harve that Rich had said somep'n' agin Nance an' him, an' somebody ups an' tells Rich that Harve had said somep'n' agin Nance an' HIM.  In a minute, stranger, hit was like two wild-cats in thar.  Folks got 'em parted, though, but thar was no more a-swingin' of Nance that night.  Harve toted her back over the Cumberlan', an' Rich's kinsfolks tuk him up ``Hell fer Sartain''; but Rich got loose, an' lit out lickety-split fer Nance Osborn's.  He knowed Harve lived too fer over Black Mountain to go home that night, an' he rid right across the river an' up to Nance's house, an' hollered fer Harve.  Harve poked his head out'n the loft--he knowed whut was wanted--an' Harve says, ``Uh, come in hyeh an' go to bed.  Hit's too late!''  An' Rich seed him a-gapin' like a chicken, an' in he walked, stumblin' might' nigh agin the bed whar Nance was a-layin', listenin' an' not sayin' a word.

      Stranger, them two fellers slept together plum frien'ly, an' they et together plum frien'ly next mornin', an' they sa'ntered down to the grocery plum frien'ly.  An' Rich says, ``Harve,'' says he, ``let's have a drink.''  ``All right, Rich,'' says Harve.  An' Rich says, ``Harve,'' says he, ``you go out'n that door an' I'll go out'n this door.''  ``All right, Rich,'' says Harve, an' out they walked, steady, an' thar was two shoots shot, an' Rich an' Harve both drapped, an' in ten minutes they was stretched out on Nance's bed an' Nance was a-lopin' away fer the yarb doctor.

      The gal nussed 'em both plum faithful.  Rich didn't hev much to say, an' Harve didn't hev much to say.  Nance was sorter quiet, an' Nance's mammy, ole Nance, jes grinned.  Folks come in to ax atter 'em right peart.  Abe Shivers come cl'ar 'cross the river--powerful frien'ly--an' ever' time Nance ud walk out to the fence with him.  One time she didn't come back, an' ole Nance fotched the boys thar dinner, an' ole Nance fotched thar supper, an' then Rich he axed whut was the matter with young Nance.  An' ole Nance jes snorted.  Atter a while Rich says:  ``Harve,'' says he, ``who tol' you that I said that word agin

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