Word: wagoneer
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...horses slackened speed sufficiently to suit King Boris. He leaped to the running board of his car, leaped for the bridle of one of the horses as it dashed past, hung on until the team halted, and "probably saved the lives of several children who were riding in the wagon...
...takes you back to his graduation from a college in Texas and forth upon the moonlit road he chose to follow into the world. Soon you meet the Chicken-Wagon Family, camped for the night by a pine-fringed Louisiana bayou, and thereafter their story and Jim Pickett...
That evening, Jean Paul Baptiste Yvonne Fippany, the chicken-wagon man, had surrendered to portly, black-eyed Mrs. Fippany about going to a town to live. She had long hinted at it (in a quiet voice, sweet as distant bells) and finally, just before supper, openly rebelled. It was because of the child, Addie, of course, not Mrs. Fippany's health at all. And Mr. Fippany surrendered by telling Breaksteel, the beagle puppy, they would give up trading tin pans and cups and gaudy Bibles and lithographs and pain-killers and perfumed hair-kink removers for chickens and eggs...
Which they all did, by slow stages, Jim Pickett teaching grave little Addie her sums and reading and geography, placing with her, bathing in creeks, he being as much a part of the chicken-wagon family as Breaksteel or Kit and Luce, the mouse-colored mules. They all reached and drove down that old country road, Broadway, jamming traffic for fair as they hunted for a wagon yard, raged at by police-men until late in the rainy night, when kind Mr. Hibbard, a cop from Missouri, showed them into. a deserted fire-engine house...
...CHICKEN-WAGON FAMILY?Barry Benefleld?Century...