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HORSES AND MEN
OTHER BOOKS BY
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
Windy McPherson’s Son, A novel
Marching Men, A novel
Mid-American Chants, Chants
Winesburg, Ohio, A book of tales
Poor White, A novel
The Triumph of the Egg, A book of tales
Many Marriages, A novel
HORSES AND MEN
Tales, long and short, from
our American life
BY
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
NEW YORK
B. W. HUEBSCH, Inc.
MCMXXIII
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
B. W. HUEBSCH, INC.
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
TO THEODORE DREISER
In whose presence I have sometimes had
the same refreshed feeling as when in
the presence of a thoroughbred horse.
Some of the tales in this book have been printed in
The Little Review, The New Republic, The Century,
Harper’s, The Dial, The London Mercury and Vanity
Fair, to which magazines the author makes due
acknowledgment.
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FOREWORD
Did you ever have a notion of this kind—there is anorange, or say an apple, lying on a table before you.You put out your hand to take it. Perhaps you eat it,make it a part of your physical life. Have youtouched? Have you eaten? That’s what I wonderabout.
The whole subject is only important to me because Iwant the apple. What subtle flavors are concealedin it—how does it taste, smell, feel? Heavens, man,the way the apple feels in the hand is something—isn’tit?
For a long time I thought only of eating the apple.Then later its fragrance became something of importancetoo. The
