John Kendrick Bangs

Jack and the Check Book John Kendrick Bangs

Book Excerpt: ...quite as rich and fertile as my own little place up in Vermont, and your cattle, though evidently of fine breed, are hardly what Montana ranch-men would consider first class. Still--"The ogre stopped eating and looked at the speaker with considerable surprise."You mean to say you can beat this place of mine anywhere?" he demanded."Well," said Jack, amiably, "of course I don't mean to criticise this beautiful country. It is very beautiful in its own way, and there is some evidence of wealth here. I was only saying that next to my place it comes pretty near to being the finest I ever saw.""I guess you'd go a good many miles before you'd see a castle like mine," said the ogre, with a proud glance around him."I haven't seen your castle yet, sir," said Jack. "But this little bungalow we are in strikes me as about as cute and comfy a cozy-corner as I've visited in a month of Sundays.""Bungalow?" roared the giant. "You don't call this a bungalow, do you?""Why, ..