Arthur Stanwood Pier

Name: The Heroism of Landers
Author: Arthur Stanwood Pier

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“The Heroism of Landers”, published in 1895, is a work by Arthur Stanwood Pier. It explores elements such as Landers, Jedge and log.

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ Not that there was a more honest man in the town than Landers. But the mill had been closed now for two months on account of hard times, and there was no present prospect of its being reopened. Most of Landers's savings had gone to meet the expenses caused by his wife's illness. She, too, had had typhoid fever; she had died two weeks before, and had been buried with little ostentation. Landers was an undemonstrative, earnest sort of a man, and, moreover, had the serious condition of his only child to think about. He was obliged, perhaps, to neglect the dead for the living. ”

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ Thee man wore an uneasy look as he removed his hat and cast his eyes hesitatingly down the room. The group by the stove ceased their hum for a moment and watched him. He was a stranger to all of them, and was, therefore, a stranger in the town. Strangers are always of interest to country loafers, and the preoccupied, troubled air with which this one, leading the little child, walked down the aisle till he came to a vacant seat, fascinated the students of character by the stove. ”

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ Then he pressed Landers's hand.
"Good-by," he said. "God sends such men as you."
They all mounted into their cars. The whistle blew, the bell clanged, and the train moved away. Landers was left alone in the darkness with the money.
III It was a cold afternoon late in November. The court-room at Alinda was a boon to the idle and the talkative on such days, for at the back end of it was a great stove, round which people could congregate and gossip, undisturbed. ”

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ Lennan, watched over the child. Each day his search had been equally vain; he knew beforehand that it would be. Men were standing idle on the corners and growing riotous through lack of food and work. Yet on this afternoon, when Mrs. Lennan came up to sit with the child, he went out as usual.
He made his ordinary unsuccessful round. As he was passing a group of idlers, who were sitting in front of the grocery, one of the men, who had a newspaper, called out to him.
"I'd like to git into somethin' like this, wouldn't you, Landers?" said the man. ”

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ Landers took the newspaper and read, in a half-hearted way, how somebody somewhere with a little trouble, though without risk, had saved a railroad train from being wrecked, and had received on the spot a purse of over a hundred dollars.
"No train ever come near bein' wrecked roun' here," said the man, complainingly. "Queer how some fellers git all the luck." ”

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ Then the conversation would subside again, and the judge would settle back into his seat, and try to become interested in the will of Hiram Jones. The two lawyers pecked at the witnesses and wrangled with each other, and got excited and gesticulated as country as country attorneys of small and infrequent practice will do on the most trivial occasions. But nobody in the jolly group round the stove minded them.
Toward the end of the afternoon the door opened, and a man in an old slouch hat, ragged brown overcoat, and muddy knee-boots entered, leading a little boy by the hand. ”

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ And after the fence had been built, they had all gone down to the river for a row, and Landers stopped remembering. He turned from the window, and walking solemnly to the centre of the room, looked up and said, in a business-like voice:
"God, what am I to do? You know, God, that if they was any work, the humbles' or meanes' or mos' dang'rous, at any wages, I'd be willin' an' glad to do it. But, God, I'ye been through this whole town day in an' day out fur a week, an' there ain't any work; there won't be any till the mill starts. People ain't able to giye a body work ”

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ He got that log out o' the way just in the nick o' time. A little more an' we'd all be grindin' to mince-meat in the bottom of the culvert just ahead. The skunks chose their groun', they did."
A little stout man, who had been bobbing impatiently on the outskirts of the crowd during Landers's story and the engineer's epilogue, now shouted,
"Boys, a man who risks his life to save ours that way deserves something, I say. I'm going to start the hat with a ten-dollar bill. Pass her round." ”

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ I saw my name published in the newspapers as a hero, an' I read pomes in the papers about me, an' I was serenaded by the neighbors when the boy got well enough, I was always pointed out to any stranger that happened along as a hero. But the worst of all was about two weeks after the thing when I got a gold medal from the man that started takin' up the collection fur me. ”

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Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Heroism of Landers (1895)

“ If you'ye made up your mind, God, that it's right an' ness'ry the chil' should die—w'y, I know we've all got to die, an' lonely as I'll be, I'll try to comfort myself thinkin' his ma couldn't git 'long 'ithout her little son. ”

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