{"product_id":"2940013691155","title":"Mountain Man","description":"\"Well,\" he said, combing his beard with his fingers, \"yo're growed\u003cbr\u003ein size, if not in years. It's time you seen somethin' of the world.\u003cbr\u003eYou ain't never been more'n thirty miles away from the cabin you was\u003cbr\u003eborn in. Yore brother John ain't able to go on account of that ba'r he\u003cbr\u003etangled with, and Bill is busy skinnin' the ba'r. You been to whar the\u003cbr\u003etrail passes, goin' to Tomahawk. All you got to do is foller it and\u003cbr\u003eturn to the right where it forks. The left goes on to Perdition.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell, I was all eager to see the world, and the next morning I was\u003cbr\u003eoff, dressed in new buckskins and riding my mule Alexander. Pap rode\u003cbr\u003ewith me a few miles and give me advice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Be keerful how you spend that dollar I give you,\" he said. \"Don't\u003cbr\u003egamble. Drink in reason; half a gallon of corn juice is enough for any\u003cbr\u003eman. Don't be techy--but don't forgit that yore pap was once the\u003cbr\u003erough-and-tumble champeen of Gonzales County, Texas. And whilst yo're\u003cbr\u003efeelin' for the other feller's eye, don't be keerless and let him chaw\u003cbr\u003eyore ear off. And don't resist no officer.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What's them, pap?\" I inquired.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Down in the settlements,\" he explained, \"they has men which their\u003cbr\u003ejob is to keep the peace. I don't take no stock in law myself, but\u003cbr\u003ethem city folks is different from us. You do what they says, and if\u003cbr\u003ethey says give up yore gun, why, you up and do it!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was shocked, and meditated awhile, and then says: \"How can I\u003cbr\u003etell which is them?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"They'll have a silver star on their shirt,\" he says, so I said\u003cbr\u003eI'd do like he told me. He reined around and went back up the\u003cbr\u003emountains, and I rode on down the path.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083146543344,"sku":"2940013691155","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013691155_p0.jpg?v=1763584418","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013691155","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}