Tioba, and Other Tales

"Tioba, and Other Tales" by Arthur Colton is a collection of 11 stories. Tioba is the first story followed by A Man For A' That, The Green Grasshopper, The Enemies, A Night's Lodging, On Edom Hill, Sons Of R. Rand, Conlon, St Catherine's, The Spiral Stone, and The Musidora Sonnet. Excerpt: «In the evening an Arcadian, an elderly man and garrulous, came up to see what it might be that glimmered among his pulp-trees. He was a surprise, and not as Arcadian as at first one might presume, for he sold milk and eggs and blueberries at a price to make one suddenly rich. His name was Fargus, and he it was whose hay-cutter clicked like a locust all day in the meadow-lands. He came and made himself amiable beside us, and confided anything we might care to know which experience had left with him. „That's Tioba,“ he said. „That's the name of that mountain.“ And he told us the story of one whom he called „Jim Hawks,“ and of the fall of Tioba.»