Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An American Story-Book: Short Stories From Studies of Life in Southwestern Pennsylvania; Pathetic, Tragic, Humorous, and Grotesque
In other words, the following stories are given to the public, that to the man of letters they may prove as characteristic growths of the region referred to, as to a naturalist are the rattlesnake and the rhododendron of its mountains and the snapping-turtle and the hellben der of its rivers; with, the writer is fain to believe, nei ther the venom of the first to poison the unwary, nor the slime of the last to excite loathing and disgust in all.
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