Word: irontown
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...Over in Irontown ("Arntown") where the teamsters are working, the villagers have their annual religious debauch - a revival. Following local custom, Abner and his mates engage female partners for the whole series of meetings. One night, during a lull in the hysteria, one Tug Beavers temporizes about going to the mourners' bench. That same night he gets a backful of buckshot from Peck Bradley, a murderer out on bail. Religion picks up. Bloodhounds bay for three days and nights in the back hills and Bradley is brought in to jail, crusted with mud but full of bravado. Sharing...
...story stumbles and lurches back to Lanesburg. Matured by his flaying at Irontown and believed to be a man of property, Abner becomes involved in the operations of Railroad Jones. The latter, obese, unlettered but wily beyond compare, plays an elusive role, now angel, now devil, but always a hero for the ingenuity of his countless victories at law and his unrivaled wealth. Possessed of an astonishing "rickollection" and pioneer shrewdness, he harps on the folly of tainting man's natural intelligence with education. He has a daughter, Adelaide, highly modernized by upstate schooling, with whom Abner...
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