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Jenkins Herbert George. Bindle: Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle
Bindle: Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I - THE BINDLES AT HOME
CHAPTER II - A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE
CHAPTER III - THE HYPNOTIC FIASCO
CHAPTER IV -- THE HEARTYS AT HOME
CHAPTER V - BINDLE TRIES A CHANGE OF WORK
CHAPTER VI - THE HOTEL CORRIDOR
CHAPTER VII - BINDLE COMMITS AN INDISCRETION
CHAPTER VIII - THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER IX - THE TEMPERANCE FÊTE
CHAPTER X - MR. HEARTY PRAYS FOR BINDLE
CHAPTER XI - MR. HEARTY BECOMES EXTREMELY UNPOPULAR
CHAPTER XII - BINDLE AGREES TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE
CHAPTER XIII - OXFORD'S WELCOME TO BINDLE
CHAPTER XIV - MR. HEARTY GIVES A PARTY
CHAPTER XV - BINDLE AND THE GERMAN MENACE
CHAPTER XVI - THE AMATEUR DETECTIVES
CHAPTER XVII - BINDLE MAKES A MISTAKE
CHAPTER XVIII - BINDLE ASSISTS IN AN ELOPEMENT
CHAPTER XIX - THE SCARLET HORSE COTERIE
CHAPTER XX - MILLIE LEAVES HOME
CHAPTER XXI - CONCLUSION
THE END
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Herbert Jenkins
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"Why don't you stick at somethin' as if you meant it?" was her way of phrasing it. "Look at Mr. Hearty. See what he's done!" Without any thought of irreverence, Mrs. Bindle used the names of the Lord and Mr. Hearty as whips of scorpions with which on occasion she mercilessly scourged her husband.
At the time of Bindle's encounter with his one-time work-mate, Ginger, he had been tramping for hours seeking a job. He had gone even to the length of answering an advertisement for a waitress, explaining to the irritated advertiser that "wi' women it was the customers as did the waitin'," and that a man was "more nippy than a gal."
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