Hapsburg Liebe

“ Obe accepted the money greedily, because he knew that he needed it for Granny Davis, who was all that he loved, and all that loved him, in the whole world. And then came scores of passengers in a rush, both men and women, who had heard what had occurred. They crowded about Obe Morelock and wrung his hands, with tears in their eyes; they tendered him a goodly percentage of the contents of their purses; one man gave his watch, and a woman followed up the example by the donation of her own little gold timepiece. ”

“ Good place for possums thar; pokeberries and persimmons grows below. Gimme that thar lantern thar. “By, granny! Come on here, Rock!” The latter to the hound.
The apparent snappishness in his conversation was but his manner, for he itched his grandmother; in all the world she was all he had to love and all that loved him.
He had started. But the old woman was uneasy about his going into the Honeycomb Cliff section, beyond the railroad; there were moonshiners there, and she feared that Obe might meet up with a rifle bullet intended for a revenue spy, as the lad was not well known among them. ”

“ Carefully the train was let down to a point within a hundred feet of the bowlder. The train’s crew and the switchman soon rolled the big stone across the outside rail, and another moment saw it plunging with a roar down the steep mountainside. ”