Octave Thanet
Published: 2018-01-24
Total Pages: 202
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Excerpt from Tales From McClure's: The West The boom 's struck Bloward, an' don't you forgit it! Said the president of the Arcadia street-railway, proudly waving his umbrella at arches, gables, Renaissance turrets, Early English buttresses, and a motley company of terra-cotta bedizenments, friezes, parapets, and finials on the new facades, which looked, amid the cheap wooden shops and dry-goods box architecture of a former day, as if they had strayed into the town and did not know the way out. How 's that for building? He cried, lunging his umbrella enthusiasti cally into the eye of a passer-by. Beg pardon, ma'am. Oh, Mrs. Crowe! Going out? Oh, plenty of time. Now, there 's a woman 's made most fifteen thousand dollars in real estate this last year - jest a woman! Old Rolfe 's made thirty, an' Curwin an' Bragg as much again; an' T. J. Wheelan - why, there 's no counting his profits. Great Scott! You cayu't stake out the lots fast enough. Children cry for 'em. Why, look at the situation - six railroads, and strong indications of natural gas. There ain't a question 'bout it; we're. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.