The Adventures of a Suburbanite

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Butler Ellis Parker. The Adventures of a Suburbanite

I. THE PRAWLEYS

II. MR. PRAWLEY’S GARDEN

III. THE EQUINE PALACE

IV. “BOB”

V. THE NEW MR. PRAWLEY

VI. THE SPECKLED HEN

VII. CHESTERFIELD WHITING

VIII. SALTED ALMONDS

IX. THE ROYAL GAME OR SEVERAL DAYS AFTER THE PIG EPISODE

X. ADVANCED GOLF

XI. MY DOMESTICATED AUTOMOBILE

XII. MR. PRAWLEY RETURNS

XIII. MILLINGTON’S MOTOR MYSTERY

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ISOBEL was brighter at dinner than she had been for some days. She seemed quite contented, now that the imaginary Prawleys had moved into the attic. She said no more about them, and when I had finished my dinner I put on my gardening togs and went out to garden awhile before dark. Blisters are certainly most painful after a day of rest, and I did not work long. I was almost in despair about the garden. Fully half had not been touched, and what I had already done looked ragged and as if it needed doing over again. The more I dug, the more great chunks of sod I found buried in it, and it seemed as if my garden, when I had dug out all the chunks of sod, would be a pit instead of a level. It threatened to be a sunken garden.

“Isobel,” I said angrily, when the sun had set and I was once more sitting in the chair on my veranda, with my hands wrapped in wet handkerchiefs, “you know how passionately fond of gardening I am, and how I longed and pined for a garden for two full years, and you know, therefore, that it takes a great deal of gardening to satisfy me; but I must say that the man who laid out that garden must have been a man of shameful leisure. He laid out a garden twice as large as any garden should be.”

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“Isobel,” I said sharply, “what is the meaning of this?”

“John,” she said meekly, “I am afraid I am to blame. You know Mr. Prawley does not like automobile riding – ”

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