title: The Coming of Cassidy (Bar-20)
author: Clarence E. Mulford
description: If you liked Louis L'Amour's Hopalong Cassidy novel--<i>The Rustlers of West Fork-</i>-you'll , love this one! This is the real thing! <i>Jackson Cain, author of Hellbreak Country on Bar-20</i>
zlib_text: **Vintage Stuff**
  
    
    
    
    
  
   **by Tom Sharpe**
  
    
  
   **Chapter 1**  
  
  The arrival of Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Browne on earth was authenticated by
  his birth certificate. His father was named as Oscar Motley Clyde-Browne,
  occupation Solicitor, and his mother as Marguerite Diana, maiden name Churley.
  Their address was The Cones, Pinetree Lane, Virginia Water. It was also
  announced in The Times with the additional note, 'Most grateful thanks to the
  staff of St Barnabas' Nursing Home.'  
  
  The thanks were premature but at the time sincere. Mr and Mrs Clyde-Browne had
  waited a long time for a child and were about to resort to medical help when
  Peregrine was conceived. Mrs Clyde-Browne was then thirty-six and her husband
  already forty. They were therefore understandably delighted when, after a
  surprisingly easy labour, Peregrine weighed in at 8 lb 5 oz at 6 a.m. on 25
  March 196-.
  
  'He's a beautiful baby,' said the Sister with greater regard for Mrs Clyde-
  Browne's feelings than for the fa