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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