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Humor · First published 1927; original Project Gutenberg EPUB · English

The Slang Brander

by Ray Humphreys

About this book

Sheriff Joe Cook has enough trouble interpreting an anonymous warning without also trying to understand his deputy’s slang. Shorty McKay’s references to dancers, dogs and being ‘all wet’ send the sheriff down one mistaken path after another as suspicious events unfold around town.

Ray Humphreys builds this comic Western around misunderstandings that become entangled with a genuine investigation. The complete story from Western Story Magazine, 24 December 1927, includes Sidney H. Riesenberg’s illustration and the original period dialogue.