KILO     

  

       Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent     

  

       By Ellis Parker Butler     

   

   

       Contents     

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       CHAPTER I. Eliph' Hewlitt     

       Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent, seated in his weather-beaten top buggy, drove his horse, Irontail, carefully along the rough Iowa hill road that leads from Jefferson to Clarence. The Horse, a rusty gray, tottered in a loose-jointed manner from side to side of the road, half asleep in the sun, and was indolent in every muscle of his body, except his tail, which thrashed violently at the flies. Eliph' Hewlitt drove with his hands held high, almost on a level with his sandy whiskers, for he was well acquainted with Irontail.     

       The road seemed to pass through a region of large farms, offering few opportunities for selling books, the houses being so far apart, but Eliph'       knew the small settlement of Clarence was a few miles farther on, and he was carrying enlightenment to the benighted. He glowed with missionary zeal. In his eagerness he thoughtlessly slapped the reins on the back of Irontail.     

       Instantly the plump, gray tail of the horse 

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