School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Bill's cowboy sermon; recitations; Indian and Wild West Stories; temperance talks (he promised his mother on her death-bed that he would never let strong drink pass his lips, and kept is); and in his Wild West attire would display has marksmanship, giving Indian war and cowboy whoops, performing lassoing tricks, + so on.
From 1901 he made his headquarters in the Hoffman House, New York City, and with a few friends formed a literary club - the most prominent member being William Sydney Porter better known as O. Henry, the master of the short story.) Captain Crawford among his many friends + contemporaries remembered Eugene Field, author of "If I should die tonight." He paid glowing tribute to King in a poem when he learned of his untimely death in Kentucky in 1894, age 35.
To some he was the sunshine poet, as he often wrote about spreading sunshine and lending a helpful hand to the other fellow going through life, and mailed to his friends on his New Year;s Greeting card this verse:
When a bit of sunshine hits me,
After passing of a cloud,
When a fit of laughter gits ye(continues on next page)
