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...since publication in 1904 has sold over 2,000,000 copies, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), with total all-time sales of 1,500,000 copies. At least five others have sold over a million: Pollyanna, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Beautiful Joe, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Huckleberry Finn...
...hours before Franklin Roosevelt set out across the continent to separate "liberal" sheep from "conservative" goats (see p. 7), quietly out of Washington for a tour of his own slipped James Aloysius Farley, chief shepherd of all Franklin Roosevelt's political herds. No believer in griping party purges, Jim Farley's mission was to soothe feelings already hurt in primary fights, encourage sheep and goats to stampede all together in November. His first stop was at Fond du Lac, Wis., his second at Sheboygan, Wis., his third at Clinton, Iowa. Altogether, Shepherd James Farley planned to stop, look...
Batopilas, Mexico, lies on a narrow shelf of land in a narrow valley in western Chihuahua, 350 miles south of El Paso, 300 miles north of Mazatlán. There, in the summer of 1880, five-year-old Grant Shepherd arrived with his mother, four sisters, two brothers, various relatives, two nurses, a doctor, four dogs. His father was manager of the ancient silver mines whose 70 miles of workings honeycombed the hills. The family had come overland from Washington, D. C., by train, wagon and pack mule, to make their home in Batopilas...
...where in the evenings they promenaded around the plaza with the young men of the town, while the band played and the young ladies eyed their admirers. They danced, trained fighting cocks, learned to drink. Sometimes they got into little scrapes with the police or the townspeople: when Con Shepherd tried to jump his horse over the drummer in the band, and landed in the bass drum; when Grant knocked down a Mexican policeman. But such pranks hurt nobody; the Americans were popular, President Porfirio Diaz maintained order in the land. The Shepherd girls grew up and married Americans...
...Silver Magnet Grant Shepherd does not answer these questions, or explain exactly what finally happened to the mine. Midway through his book he begins to write less about the lost pleasures of Batopilas, and more about long vacations, about sprees, about squabbles with mean-spirited natives, about the petty thievery among workmen, the stupidity of newcomers, the pusillanimity of the Wilson administration, etc. His story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion...