OVER GRASS-GROWN TRAILS KIOTE BOOKS Over Grass-Grown Trails (stories), by Graves Shedd . . $1.00Harry A of Farmer GirlsGallery (verse), by W. Miller . . . i.ooSchuyler Volume The Kiote . . . i.ooI, The Kiote . . . i.ooII, IN PREPARATION Kiote Number I . .Tales, 1.25 OverGrass-Grown c Trails HARRY GRAVES SHEDD U. S. A.LINCOLN, NEB., THE KIOTE CO.PUBLISHING MCM Copyright, 1900 HARRY GRAVES SHEDDBy is a little book of WesternThis, then, Stories Graves ofby Harry Shedd, which five hundred were andprinted, the number of this volume is ff MOTHERTO3MY NebraskaLincoln, April, 1900 CONTENTS Page After Ten Years . . . .13 The Coward .... 45 At Dawn of . . .Day 79 The Blizzard . . . . iQZ......Ashley 119 His Love for the . . .People 129 Barnacle . . 161"Cherrybeak" Stewart, AFTER TEN YEARS AFTER TEN YEARS I T the sound of a distant whis- four awoman in black,tle, men, and a in knickerbockersboy came out of the little station and stood like sheep againsthuddling snow that wasthe whippedwhirling lined in banksacross the tracks and the building.against two hours and"Not more'n late, for athat's good toy enginepretty snow from the river.buckin' this up to knowThe superintendent ought better to extend the time inought winter." The bus-driver and drew hisspoke little thin face into hisdeeper upturned until his thin bunch of chin-collar, awhiskers stood out likestraight brush.squirrel's in to-night?""Expecting anybody asked one ofthe men. for two"No. awayNobody gone days.