One character in this story attempts to relate the plot of Pope's translation of The Iliad, but mispronounces "Achilles" as "Ash-heels.
One character in this story attempts to relate the plot of Pope's translation of The Iliad, but mispronounces "Achilles" as "Ash-heels." One character in this story starves herself to death to save rations for Piney Woods, who ran away to marry "The Innocent." Another character in this story writes a suicide note on a two of clubs and pins it to a tree with a bowie knife. To the accompaniment of an accordion, characters in this story sing the refrain "I'm proud to live in the service of the Lord, and I'm bound to die in His army." The main characters of this story are stranded together with Mother Shipton and "The Duchess" in a snow-storm after Uncle Billy makes off with all of their mules and horses. The gambler John Oakhurst commits suicide in, for 10 points, what Bret Harte story?
One character in this story attempts to relate the plot of Pope's translation of The Iliad, but mispronounces "Achilles" as "Ash-heels.
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"