



Produced by Les Bowler










Smoke Bellew




Contents

  THE TASTE OF THE MEAT
  THE MEAT
  THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK
  SHORTY DREAMS
  THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK
  THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE




THE TASTE OF THE MEAT.




I.


In the beginning he was Christopher Bellew.  By the time he was at
college he had become Chris Bellew.  Later, in the Bohemian crowd of
San Francisco, he was called Kit Bellew.  And in the end he was known
by no other name than Smoke Bellew.  And this history of the evolution
of his name is the history of his evolution.  Nor would it have
happened had he not had a fond mother and an