The daydreams of Ephraim Deacon and his friend Phineas Doolittle, who plan to corner the pie market, are examined by the ever-good-humored Ellis Parker Butler.
His name was John Griffith Chaney. When he came to write, he took his stepfather’s surname and made himself immortal as Jack London. Here is one of his short stories, infused with a theme that always fascinated him: Brown Wolf.