Ten Nights in a Bar Room

by T. S. Arthur

TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM

BY

T. S. ARTHUR

CONTENTS

NIGHT THE FIRST—[THE "SICKLE AND SHEAF."]
NIGHT THE SECOND—[THE CHANGES OF A YEAR.]
NIGHT THE THIRD—[JOE MORGAN'S CHILD.]
NIGHT THE FOURTH—[DEATH OF LITTLE MARY MORGAN.]
NIGHT THE FIFTH—[SOME OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAVERN-KEEPING.]
NIGHT THE SIXTH—[MORE CONSEQUENCES.]
NIGHT THE SEVENTH—[SOWING THE WIND.]
NIGHT THE EIGHTH—[REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.]
NIGHT THE NINTH—[A FEARFUL CONSUMMATION.]
NIGHT THE TENTH—[THE CLOSING SCENE AT THE "SICKLE AND SHEAF."]

NIGHT THE FIRST.

THE "SICKLE AND SHEAF."

Ten years ago, business required me to pass a day in Cedarville. It was late in the afternoon when the stage set me down at the "Sickle and Sheaf," a new tavern, just opened by a new landlord, in a new house, built with the special end of providing "accommodations for man and beast." As I stepped from the dusty old vehicle in which I had been jolted along a rough road for some thirty miles, feeling tired and hungry, the good-natured face of Simon Slade, the landlord, beaming as it did with a hearty welcome, was really a pleasant sight to see, and the grasp of his hand was like that of a true friend.

I felt as I entered the new and neatly furnished sitting-room adjoining the bar, that I had indeed found a comfortable resting-place after my wearisome journey.