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  Affectionately to my Father,
  The Reverend GRIGG THOMPSON.




  HOOSIER MOSAICS.

  By MAURICE THOMPSON.


  NEW YORK:
  E. J. HALE & SON, PUBLISHERS,
  MURRAY STREET.
  1875.


  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by
  E. J. HALE & SON,
  In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.




CONTENTS.


                                PAGE.

  _WAS SHE A BOY?_                 _7_

  TROUT'S LUCK,                    29

  _BIG MEDICINE_,                 _50_

  _THE VENUS OF BALHINCH_,        _76_

  THE LEGEND OF POTATO CREEK,      92

  _STEALING A CONDUCTOR_,        _114_

  HOIDEN,                         127

  THE PEDAGOGUE,                  162

  AN IDYL OF THE ROD,             188




WAS SHE A BOY?


No matter what business or what pleasure took me, I once, not long ago,
went to Colfax. Whisper it not to each other that I was seeking a
foreign appointment through the influence of my fellow Hoosier, the late
Vice-President of the United States. O no, I didn't go to the Hon.
Schuyler Colfax at all; but I went to Colfax, simply, which is a little
dingy town, in Clinton County, that was formerly called Midway, because