Excerpt from The Bar-Rooms at Brantley: Or, the Great Hotel Speculation Neither the county jail nor the almshouse could point to a single inmate from Brantly, a fact that Jacob Grover rarely failed to use in the occasional arguments on the topic of liquor-sell ing which came up between him and some of the people who made his house their stopping place. One day there alighted from the stage-coach, a man wearing a profusion of gold chains, dia mond rings and studs. He carried his head rather high, and had an air Of vulgar importance. It was a cold, crisp day in November, and as he came into the office, with a breezy air and a stamping tread, he cried out in a voice that had in it more of command than request. 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.