Elias B. Hopkins, the Parson of Jackman's Gulch

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The Parson of Jackman's Gulch is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the magazine London Society in december 1885 as Elias B. Hopkins - The Parson of Jackman's Gulch. Title shortened in the collected volumes. Elias B. Hopkins, aka "The Parson", is a new reverend at Jackman's Gulch, a small miner village in Australia. In the local bar, swearing and blasphemes are not uncommon. That's why he decides to recite the Bible aloud for each bad word he hears. So much that he who swears is now frowned upon his peers for breaking the atmosphere...

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