Excerpt from The Jonah of Lucky Valley: And Other StoriesThe stories included in the present volume are collected from various sources. The Jonah of Lucky Valley and A Daphne of the F oot-hills appeared in harper's \veekly, A Romance of the Big Horn and The Sher ifi of Oskaloo in Peterson's Magazine, yaller-bird and yaller-bird's Christmas Turkey in Texas Siftz'ngs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.