Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories

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Arthur Timothy Shay. Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories

INTRODUCTION

WHO ARE HAPPIEST?

DICK LAWSON, AND THE YOUNG MOCKING-BIRD

THE MEANS OF ENJOYMENT

MAN'S JUDGMENT

WHAT FIVE DOLLARS PAID

LOOK AT T'OTHER SIDE

THIN SHOES

THE UNRULY MEMBER

THE RICH AND THE POOR

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"What troubles you, William?" said Mrs. Aiken, speaking in a tone of kind concern to her husband, who sat silent and moody, with his eyes now fixed upon the floor, and now following the forms of his plainly-clad children as they sported, full of health and spirits, about the room.

It was evening, and Mr. Aiken, a man who earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, had, a little while before, returned from his daily labour.

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"As I was turning away, a door of the room opened, and Mrs. Elder and two children entered.

"'I wish you would send those children up to the nursery,' he exclaimed, in a fretful half-angry voice. 'I'm in no humour to be troubled with them now.'

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