The Man Who Stole A Meeting-House

The Man Who Stole A Meeting-House PDF

Author: J. T. Trowbridge

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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This a fictional satire novel revolving about the tale of Jedwort, a hard-nosed businessman who is obsessed with making money at all costs. Even if it means depriving his family of their basic needs just to watch his bank account grow. By any degree he had lost all regard for decency and his neighbor's opinions. And now he is set to stake his claim on his biggest prize yet, the town's meeting hall...

The Man Who Stole a Meeting-House

The Man Who Stole a Meeting-House PDF

Author: J. T. Trowbridge

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781501079368

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On a recent journey to the Pennsylvania oil regions, I stopped one evening with a fellow-traveler at a village which had just been thrown into a turmoil of excitement by the exploits of a horse-thief. As we sat around the tavern hearth, after supper, we heard the particulars of the rogue's capture and escape fully discussed; then followed many another tale of theft and robbery, told amid curling puffs of tobacco-smoke; until, at the close of an exciting story, one of the natives turned to my traveling acquaintance, and, with a broad laugh, said, "Kin ye beat that, stranger?"