The Four-Masted Cat-Boat, and Other Truthful Tales by Charles Battell Loomis
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| Author | Loomis, Charles Battell, 1861-1911 |
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| Illustrator | Shinn, Florence Scovel, 1871-1940 |
| Title | The Four-Masted Cat-Boat, and Other Truthful Tales |
| Contents | The four-masted cat-boat -- The poor was mad -- A peculiar industry -- Griggs's mind -- The signals of Griggs -- À la Sherlock Holmes -- My Spanish parrot -- "To meet Mr. Cavendish" -- Instinct supplied to hens -- A spring idyl -- An inverted spring idyl -- At the Chestnuts' dinner -- The Rough Words Society -- A new use for horses -- A calculating bore -- An urban game -- "De gustibus" -- "Buffum's bustless buffers" -- "The father of Santa Claus" -- The dialect store -- "From the French" -- On the value of dogmatic utterance -- The sad case of Deacon Perkins -- The missing-word bore -- The confessions of a critic -- How 'Rasmus paid the mortgage -- 'Midst armed foes -- At the sign of the cygnet -- A Scotch sketch -- Ephrata Symonds's double life -- A stranger to luck -- Cupid on runners -- My truthful burglar -- The man without a watch -- The wreck of the "Catapult" -- The bull, the girl, and the red shawl -- Concerning dish-washing -- A perennial fever -- "Amicus redivivus" -- The proper care of flies. |
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| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Humorous stories, American |
| Subject | Short stories, American |
| Subject | American fiction -- 19th century |
| Subject | Manners and customs -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 63863 |
| Release Date | Nov 23, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 16 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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