Original Penny Readings: A Series of Short Sketches

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George Manville Fenn. Original Penny Readings: A Series of Short Sketches

Original Penny Readings: A Series of Short Sketches

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Paying the Footing

Chapter Two

Aboard a Light-Ship

Chapter Three

K9—A Queer Dog

Chapter Four

Waiting for ’Arry

Chapter Five

A Rogue in Grain

Chapter Six

A Cabman’s Story

Chapter Seven

J. Weltus

Chapter Eight

My Fare

Chapter Nine

Spots on Life’s Sun

Chapter Ten

Dining with Cabby

Chapter Eleven

K9’s Adventure

Chapter Twelve

A Vulgar Tongue

Chapter Thirteen

From Real Life

Chapter Fourteen

A Wheel of Misfortune

Chapter Fifteen

A Sea Breeze

Chapter Sixteen

Told in the Dusk

Chapter Seventeen

Mephitic Fumes

Chapter Eighteen

On the Great Deep

Chapter Nineteen

Martha Jinks’s Egsperiences

Chapter Twenty

A Struggle for Life

Chapter Twenty One

The Evils of a Wig

Chapter Twenty Two

To be Sold by Auction

Chapter Twenty Three

A Placard

Chapter Twenty Four

Cast Ashore

Chapter Twenty Five

The First Stray Hair

Chapter Twenty Six

A Piece of Assurance

Chapter Twenty Seven

The Decline of the Drama

Chapter Twenty Eight

In the Hooghly

Chapter Twenty Nine

A Tale of the Great Passion

Chapter Thirty

Found in the Street

Chapter Thirty One

A Weird Place

Chapter Thirty Two

A Common Object

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George Manville Fenn

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Bobby sat one evening in my study—as my wife insists upon calling the little shabby room over the back kitchen—and for awhile he seemed such a Tartar that I regretted having caught him. I almost shrank beneath his hard stare, and began to wonder whether I had done anything that would necessitate the use of the “darbies” he was fidgeting about in his pocket, especially when his eyes were so intently fixed upon my wrists, which lay upon the table before me in rather an exposed state, from the fact of the tweed jacket I wore not being one of the “warranted shrunk.” It was enough to make any one shudder and draw the sleeves lower down, and my performance of this act appeared to make my visitor so suspicious that I verily believe he would have interposed to prevent my exit any time during the course of his call.

My friend partook of my hospitality, and then began to speak, when I opened a book and seized a pencil, but,—

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