For the fact, he was objectionable in every way: as a human being, a man, a citizen, a member of the Slocum County bar, and a veteran of our late civil conflict.

On maps it is Little Arcady, county seat of Slocum County, an isle and haven in the dreary land sea that flattens away from it on every side,north to the big woods, south to the swamp counties, and east and west, one might almost say, a thousand miles to the mountains.

CHAPTER V A MAD PRANK OF THE GODS A week after the publication of that blithe bit of acrimony which opens this tale, Colonel J. Rodney Potts, recreated and natty in a new summer suit of alpaca, his hat freshly ironed, sued the town of Little Arcady for ten thousand dollar damages to his person and announced his candidacy at the ensuing election for the honorable office of Judge of Slocum County.

The Banner that week contained the following bit of news: =DASTARDLY ASSAULT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT= =Early last Thursday evening, as Colonel J. Rodney Potts, dean of the Slocum County bar, was enjoying a quiet stroll along our beautiful river bank near Cady's mill, he was set upon by a gang of ruffians and would have been foully dealt with but for his vigorous resistance.

The next Banner spoke of a foul conspiracy whose nefarious end it was to blacken the sterling character of a good man, of that Nestor of the Slocum County Bar, Colonel J. Rodney Potts.

I'll tell you the factif Potts is here six weeks longer, and let to finish this canvas, my influence in Slocum County is gone.

It was in this very epoch that the verse was born which for many years sang blithely from the top of the first columnsang of Denney's public-spirited optimism as to Slocum County and the Little Country.

Keep your eye on Slocum, She's all right!

Q.Z. Slocum Music by Professor Kiddoo's Silver Bugle Brass Band and Philharmonic Orchestra.

Scott, Foresman & Co. (PWH); 3Jan67; R400345. ESTABROOK, HELEN SLOCUM.

SEE Slocum, Victor.

No time for funnies, by Ann Todd & Rosalie Slocum.

Pictures by Rosalie Slocum.

By Elmer L. Irey & William J. Slocum.

Captain Joshua Slocum: the adventures of America's best known sailor.

By Victor Slocum.

Frances Slocum of Miami Lodge.

SLOCUM, ROSALIE. SEE Goldberg, Rosalie Slocum.

SLOCUM, ROSALIE. SEE Goldberg, Rosalie Slocum.

SETY, MARGUERITE. SEE Peisson, Marguerite Sety. SEVENTY STORIES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Compiled by Helen Slocum Estabrook. Illustrated with reproductions from work of master woodcut artists of the 15th & 16th centuries.

SLOCUM, RALPH. Castaway boats.

No time for funnies, by Ann Todd & Rosalie Slocum.

Pictures by Rosalie Slocum.

SLOCUM, ROSALIE.

By Elmer L. Irey & William J. Slocum.