Happy Stories, Just to Laugh at

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Стивен Ликок. Happy Stories, Just to Laugh at

Happy Stories, Just to Laugh at

Table of Contents

PREFACE

I. MR. McCOY SAILS FOR FIJI

II. PAWN TO KING’S FOUR

III. IMPERVIOUS TO WOMEN

IV. THE JONES’S ENCHANTED CASTLE

V. MR. ALCORN IMPROVES HIMSELF

VI. CLOUDS THAT ROLLED BY: MR. ALLDONE’S AWFUL DAY

VII. ANGEL POND, LURE OF THE NORTH

VIII. COOKING FOR VICTORY

IX. GOOD NEWS! A NEW PARTY!

X. THE LIFE OF LEA AND PERRINS

XI. A MORNING OFF

XII. MR. PLUMTER, B.A., REVISITS THE OLD SHOP

XIII. ALLEGORY ISLAND

XIV. DAMON AND PYTHIAS, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC

XV. BOOM TIMES

XVI. MARIPOSA MOVES ON

I. THE HAPPY WARRIOR

II. NATIONAL DEBT, NATIONAL BLESSING

III. THE SULTAN SPEAKS FROM THE GRAVE

IV. HAVE YOU GOT EVEN ONE CENT?

V. THE RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION OF ANGUS McCORDELL

VI. THE CHAIRMAN’S WALKING STICK

VII. GOING! GOING! GONE!

VIII. A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH

Отрывок из книги

Stephen Butler Leacock

Published by Good Press, 2021

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