TAILIEUCHUNG - Goat-Feathers

No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all of us, and I am no different. I'm starting out now to tell the bitter, agonizing truth about myself, but before I am through I shall probably be lying at the rate of a mile a minute and cracking myself up something awful! A man can tell only so much truth; then he begins to wabble. The truth is, I ought to be making as much money as Robert W. Chambers, and winning prizes of honor like Ernest Poole, and I'm not. I ought to. | Goat-Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler 1 Goat-Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler The Project Gutenberg EBook of Goat-Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Goat-Feathers Author Ellis Parker Butler Release Date March 22 2009 EBook 28389 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOAT-FEATHERS Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive GOAT-FEATHERS BY Ellis Parker Butler Goat-Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler 2 BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT 1918 BY THE CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1919 BY ELLIS PARKER BUTLER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM Goat-Feathers GOAT-FEATHERS No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular all of us and I am no different. I m starting out now to tell the bitter agonizing truth about myself but before I am through I shall probably be lying at the rate of a mile a minute and cracking myself up something awful A man can tell only so much truth then he begins to wabble. The truth is I ought to be making as much money as Robert W. Chambers and winning prizes of honor like Ernest Poole and I m not. I ought to be better known as a humorist than George Ade and Mark Twain rolled into one and I m not. The trouble with me is that I am always too ready and eager to break away and go gathering goat-feathers. If it had not been for that I might be a millionaire or the President of the United States or the leading American Author bound in Red Russia leather. I might have been a .

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