bulltongue

Updated: July 7, 2025

It was half-past eleven when a man galloped into the West Forty-seventh Street Police Station with the story of his wrongs. "Nine hundred and fifty dollars," he gasped, "all my share of grandmother's farm." The desk sergeant wrung from him the name Jabez Bulltongue, of Locust Valley farm, Ulster County, and then began to take descriptions of the strong-arm gentlemen.

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