Skinner's Dress Suit

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Dodge Henry Irving. Skinner's Dress Suit

CHAPTER I. SKINNER ASKS FOR A RAISE

CHAPTER II. HOW SKINNER GOT HIS RAISE

CHAPTER III. SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT

CHAPTER IV. SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT BEGINS TO GET IN ITS FINE WORK

CHAPTER V. THE OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE DRESS SUIT

CHAPTER VI. DODGING A MAGNATE AND WHAT CAME OF IT

CHAPTER VII. SKINNER AND THE "GOLD BUGS"

CHAPTER VIII. CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST

CHAPTER IX. SKINNER FISHES WITH A DIPLOMATIC HOOK

CHAPTER X. SKINNER LANDS A CURMUDGEON

CHAPTER XI. THE OSTRICH FEATHER

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Presently, Wilkes, in the seat just ahead of Skinner, folded his newspaper and turned to his neighbor. "Are you going to the reception to the new pastor at the First Presbyterian?"

"Am I going? You bet I am. We're all going."

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"Better not count your chickens, Honey, – I'm superstitious, you know."

Skinner began to see his ten-dollar raise growing to gigantic proportions. He had visions of himself at the end of four years hustling to "make good" "over two thousand dollars." For the first time he questioned the wisdom of promoting himself. But he could n't back out now. He almost damned Honey's thrift. He would be piling up a debt which threatened to become an avalanche and swamp him, and for which he would get no equivalent but temporarily increased adulation. How could he nip this awful thing in the bud? He did n't see any way out of it unless it were to throw up his job and cut short this accumulating horror. But at least he had a year of grace – two years, four years, for that matter – before he would have to render an accounting, and who could tell what four years might bring forth? Surely, in that time he'd be able to get out of it somehow.

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