Boss

PREFACE. THE story of Boss is a photograph taken from the memory of thosewho were members of the household and witnesses of the events described, and is true in all essential features, except that fictitious names of persons and places are substituted in the narrative for the real ones. I have endeavored to give the story its appropriate setting, describing the region in which the incidents transpired, inter- spersing them with the folk-lore, the jests, the anecdotes, and the local expressions w