Louis L'Amour
Over On The Dry Side
October 1975
We are reading a book for our Honors English class. I chose this one. It is the story of a man and his son who are traveling west to go find a place to build a home. They come up upon a house that is called the Chantry place, and on the front step there is a dead man laying there. They decide that this is the place that they are going to stay and live, and they bury the dead guy, who they assume is Chantry. By the looks of things, they come to the conclusion that it wasn't indians that killed the man, it was white men. While they are starting to get settled in, a stranger on a horse comes, and they find out his name is Owen Chantry, the dead man's brother. He says he is glad that they are staying there and stays with them. A group of bad white guys comes riding up, and they threaten the three of them, and tell them they need to be gone by that night. If they aren't gone, they are going to burn the house down with them in it. Owen shoots one of the guys fingers off, and Doby, the son, gets into a fight with one of them and beats him up pretty badly.
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sound like Louis has a lot of good books. n ya have to watch them kids, Especially the ones that punch walls haha
ReplyDeleteAre you a wall puncher? Maybe your knuckles will replace themselves like shark teeth. I read this book--it's pretty good, I thought. It was weird to think about walking up to an empty house and just deciding to live there, not to mention the dead guy on the porch...
ReplyDeleteya that would b crazy. And no I don't punch the walls cause they'd get the best of me every time. So i just figure that i prob should'nt ever do it. Ask Dylen or torey about getting a broken hand by doing it haha
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