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Goat-Feathers, by Ellis Parker Butler
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Title: Goat-Feathers
Author: Ellis Parker Butler
Release Date: March 22, 2009 [EBook #28389]
Language: English
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GOAT-FEATHERS
BY
Ellis Parker Butler
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM
Goat-Feathers
GOAT-FEATHERS
No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all of us, and I am no different. I'm starting out now to tell the bitter, agonizing truth about myself, but before I am through I shall probably be lying at the rate of a mile a minute and cracking myself up something awful! A man can tell only so much truth; then he begins to wabble.
The truth is, I ought to be making as much money as Robert W. Chambers, and winning prizes of honor