Mark Tidd: His Adventures And Strategies

Excerpt: My name is Martin?James Briggs Martin?but almost everybody calls me Tallow, because once when I was younger I saw old Uncle Ike Bond rubbing tallow on his boots to shine them, and then hurried home and fixed mine up with the stub of a candle and went to school. I guess it couldn?t have smelled very good, for everybody seemed to notice it, even teacher, and she asked me what in the world I...