Publisher's Synopsis
"Peanut" THE STORY OF A BOY BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE AUTHOR OF MARK TWAIN-A BIOGRAPHY THE TENT-DWELLERS, ETC. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXIII. PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1913. The blackened stumps had been left-perhaps more easily to identify the little clearing about the grave. From the ravine below, where the stage passed, they were still visible, but the two-inch headboard, weather-beaten by a year of sun and rain, was getting lost in a growth of bushes. When pointed out by the driver as marking the "last hangout of Blazer Sam," who had "died with his boots on, and had two cuss-words in his epitaph," it could be discerned now with difficulty and there were travelers, men mostly, who prevailed upon the somewhat garrulous official to "let the horses blow a little while" they scaled the mountain for a closer view. The epitaph itself was worth the climb.