OLD NEWS: At long last, Bernie Babcock's Billy of Arkansas finds true love. The end.
Today Old News wraps up a four months' effort to paraphrase a novella written by Bernie Babcock and published in 1922 by the Arkansas Democrat.
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Today Old News wraps up a four months' effort to paraphrase a novella written by Bernie Babcock and published in 1922 by the Arkansas Democrat.
Part 16 in a series: Old News is paraphrasing "Billy of Arkansas," a novel by Bernie Babcock that was serialized by the Arkansas Democrat in 1922.
John Bierce has just carried Billy Camelton upstairs against her will, kissed her full on the mouth and plopped her into a sitting room chair in a most un-grandfatherly manner. "You have spoiled everything," she tells him.
Continuing our trek here through Bernie Babcock's 1922 ... oh, let's call "Billy of Arkansas" a novella. Today we come to a moment of romantic peril.
The impetuous heroine of Bernie Babcock's "Billy of Arkansas" has discovered to her sincere dismay that the women's workhouse in New York is as dangerous as the night court judge warned her it would be. She regrets not trusting him.