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Peanut: the Story of a Boy (1913) - Simon - 12-17-2025
A tale of a little boy, Peanut (Philip Nutt), presumed an orphan, taken in and raised by Blazer Sam, an outlaw and his won-in-a-poker-game housekeeper known as The Rose of Texas.
Little Peanut's life is tranquil, if melancholy, since the death of Blazer, who was his close companion --during his infrequent visits back home-- on many adventures into the wood-lands surrounding their home near a coal mining camp. But since his death six years earlier, Peanut still misses him terribly, and visits his grave daily, when weather permits, to sit and talk to him, or just to lay upon the ground and sleep.
From time to time, the stage that passes through these parts will stop to let the horse-team rest, and some of the passengers will make the climb up the steep cliff to view the place where Blazer Sam is laid, where the simple wooden marker tells that he 'died with his boots on,' and has two cuss-words in his epitaph. Peanut abhors these visits, and hides in the bushes, watching to be sure no one moves Blazer's bones.
One such of these visitors, a Miss Cynthia Schofield, a teacher from Chicago, and presenter of certain illustrated evening lectures which she calls "In-Gatherings," had made the trek on this day, to find the young boy asleep on the grave. Little does Peanut know how radically his life --and outlook on the world-- is about to change...