Excerpt from Painted Rock: Tales and Narratives of Painted, Rock, South Panhandle, Texas, Told, by Charlie Baker, Late of That City, and Also of Snyder, Scurry County He's a stranger, sure pop. I saw him get Off the cars yesterday, and I've been in Painted Rock nigh on to three years, and I lay ten dollars he hasn't been here durin' that time. Well, I've seen him somewhere, I'll take an oath to that on a stack of Bibles, said Gedge. I've been around this locality mor'n three years, my son, and mebbe I saw him twenty years ago in Georgia. I never forget a face or an injury or a good turn done me, and somehow I hev a solid based opinion that I've done more than passed the time of day with that melancholy individual that poked his head in here just now, and took a look around these deserted halls. We had some more poison at Pillsbury's expense, and then Gedge smote the bar with his open hand. We looked at him in silence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.