[Gutenberg 27439] • Sundry Accounts

Excerpt from The Works of Irvin S. Cobb: Sundry Accounts

In all respects save one, Squire J onas, telling the inquiring stranger the tale, had the rights of it. There were town characters aplenty he might have described. A long-settled commun ity with traditions behind it and a reasonable antiquity seems to breed curious types of men and women as a musty closet breeds mice and moths. This town of ours had its town mys teries and its town eccentrics - its freaks, if one wished to put the matter bluntly; and it had its champion story-teller and its champion liar and its champion guesser of the weight of live stock on the hoof.

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