Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Name: Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard — Good Men and True : Chapter 1
Author: Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

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“Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard — Good Men and True : Chapter 1”, published in 1920, is a work by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. It explores elements such as cowboy, thumbs and Bransford.

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ Jeff Bransford's cheek to a rosy-brown, contrasting sharply with the whiteness of the upper part of his forehead, when exposed—as now—by the pushing up of his sombrero. These same suns and winds had drawn at the corners of his eyes a network of fine lines: but the brown eyes were undimmed, and his face had a light, sure look of unquenchable boyishness; sure mark of the unattached, and therefore care free and irresponsible man, who, as the saying goes, "is at home wherever his hat is hung." ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ And when you drive two, three thousand head of cattle, with four feet apiece, to the round-up ground and chouse 'em 'round half a day, cutting out steers, the dust is so thick a horse can't fall down when he stumbles. Then mister cowboy folds his little hankie, like them other triangles that the ladies, God bless 'em, with their usual perversity, call 'squares,' ties the ends, puts the knot at the back of his neck, pulls the wide part over his mouth and up over the bridge of his nose, and breathes through it! ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ He glanced with much interest over as much of his own person as he could see; turning and twisting to aid the process. "I don't see anything wrong. Is my hair on straight?"
"Wrong!" echoed Aughinbaugh severely, shaking an accusing finger. "Why, you're all wrong. What the public expects—"
Mr. Bransford's interruption may be omitted. It was profane. Also, it was plagiarized from Commodore Vanderbilt.
"You a cowboy! Yah!" said Aughinbaugh in vigorous scorn. "With a silk necktie! Everybody knows that the typical cowboy wears a red cotton handkerchief." ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ But Jeff waved him down.
"Don't speak to the man at the wheel, my son. And everything a cowboy uses, at work, from hat to boots, from saddle to bed, has just as good a reason for being exactly what it is as that handkerchief. ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ I have the concentrated venom of about twenty-one years stored away to work off on somebody, and I feel it in my bones that you are the man. Come with me and I will do you good—as it says in mournful Numbers. ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ In the first place, take the typical cowboy. There positively ain't no sich person! Maybe so half of 'em's from Texas and the other half from anywhere and everywhere else. But they're all alike in just one thing—and that is that every last one of them is entirely different from all the others. Each one talks as he pleases, acts as he pleases and—when not at work—dresses as he pleases. ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ And they all have a chance at 'the education of a gentleman'—'to ride, to shoot and to speak the truth.' They have to ride and shoot—and speakin' the truth comes easier for them than for some folks, 'cause if speaking the aforesaid truth displeases any one they mostly don't give a damn."
"Stop! Spare me!" cried Aughinbaugh. He collapsed in his chair, sliding together in an attitude of extreme dejection. "My spirits are very low, but——" He rose, tottered feebly to his desk and took therefrom a small bottle, which, with a glass, he handed to Bransford. ”

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Good Men and True; and, Hit the Line Hard… (1920)

“ A large proportion—I mean, of course, a right smart chance—of the cowboys are illiterate, and some of them are grand rascals, but they ain't none of 'em plumb imbeciles. They couldn't stay on the job. If their brains don't naturally work pretty spry, things happen to 'em—the chuck-wagon bunts 'em or something. ”

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