Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season

Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season
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George Manville Fenn. Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season

Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season

Table of Contents

Chapter Two

Corns

Chapter Three

A Ghastly Deed

Chapter Four

Come Back

Chapter Five

Upon Christmas-Eve

Chapter Six

Haunted by Spirits

Chapter Seven

On the Down Line

Chapter Eight

Preparing for Christmas

Chapter Nine

The Ice-Breaking

Chapter Ten

A Horror of Horrors

Chapter Eleven

Cabby at Christmas

Chapter Twelve

Drat the Cats

Chapter Thirteen

An Australian Christmas

Chapter Fourteen

Gnashing of Teeth

Chapter Fifteen

The Monarch of the Mould

Chapter Sixteen

Spun Yarn

Chapter Seventeen

Asher’s Last Hour

Chapter Eighteen

Munday’s Ghost

Chapter Nineteen

The Spirits of the Bells

Chapter Twenty

A Rogue and a Vagabond

Chapter Twenty One

A Spirit of the Past

Chapter Twenty Two

A Goblin Ditty

Chapter Twenty Three

King Boreas

Chapter Twenty Four

A Lady in the Case

Chapter Twenty Five

The Ghosts at the Grange

Chapter Twenty Six

Caught in his own Trap

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George Manville Fenn

Published by Good Press, 2019

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It would have done your heart good to have seen Shadrach rattle up those shutters, as the boy down stairs held them up to the roller ready for him to take.

“Ter-r-r-r-r-rattle” went the shutter as he dragged it over the roller, and then “flip-flap-bang,” it was in its place. “Ter-r-r-r-r-rattle” went another, and nearly knocked an old gentleman over, but he only gave a leap, skip, and a jump, and laughed. Two shutters up, and that big, nodding Chinese mandarin with the bare stomach is covered up. “Ter-r-r-r-rattle,” and part of the big China punchbowl covered. “Ter-r-r-r-rattle,” and the whole of it covered. At it again—and the squeezy almond-eyed lady hidden. At it again, nine shutters up. At it again, skipping about as though he had never walked a step that day, but just come fresh out of a lavender-and-clover bed ready for work, after lying by for a rest. “Ter-r-r-r-rattle-bing-bang-bump.” He did it that time: knocked the policeman’s helmet off, and sent it rolling along the pavement.

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