Mystery writer Aaron

Usage examples of elkins.

The character is Breckinridge Elkins, and the story type, is, well, different.

Breck Elkins is a superior physical fighter, master of all weapons he works with, incredibly fast and strong, master of fighting multiple foes at once, using whatever he can lay his hands on.

And as Conan had developed from Kull, so Breck Elkins had developed from Sailor Steve Costigan.

For Breck Elkins, it is “Mountain Man,” a story that involves our Not-Too-Bright Super-Hillbilly getting into a boxing match.

The first nine Breck Elkins stories in this volume have never been reprinted except in one newspaper and one chapbook.

But the Breck Elkins stories are all about family and friends, and Breck interacting with them.

I'm Breckinridge Elkins from Bear Creek up in the Humbolts, and I shoot better in my sleep than most men does wide awake!

But a few minutes later here come Erath Elkins slitherin’ through the pines.

Breckinridge Elkins, I'll tell yore pap about this, you big, lazy, good-for-nothin', low-down, ornery—"

Breaking Joel Gordon's laig was a mistake, and Erath Elkins is a liar when he says I caved in them five ribs of his'n plumb on purpose.

Well, it ain't every gal which has a chance to get hitched to Breckinridge Elkins, so I didn't blame her for being excited.

And Erath Elkins, and a mob of Gordons and Buckners and Polks, all more or less kin to me, except Joe Braxton who wasn't kin to any of us, but didn't like me because he was sweet on Miss Margaret.

Three or four had got me around the laigs again, refusing to be convinced that I couldn't be throwed that way, and Erath Elkins, having pulled hisself out of the ruins of the fence, come charging back with his bowie.

The only reason I ever thought about marryin’ her was I was ready to settle down, on the farm pap gave me, and I wanted to marry me a Elkins gal so I wouldn't have to go to the expense of hirin’ a couple of hands and buyin’ a span of mules and—"

I was drinking me a dram at the bar of the Yaller Dawg Saloon and Hotel, when the bar-keep says, after studying me a spell, he says: “You must be Breckinridge Elkins, of Bear Creek.