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Joseph Crosby Lincoln. The Postmaster
The Postmaster
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I—I MAKE TWO BETS—AND LOSE ONE OF 'EM
CHAPTER II—WHAT A "PULLET" DID TO A PEDIGREE
CHAPTER III—I GET INTO POLITICS
CHAPTER IV—HOW I MADE A CLAM CHOWDER; AND WHAT A CLAM CHOWDER MADE OF ME
CHAPTER V—A TRAP AND WHAT THE "RAT" CAUGHT IN IT
CHAPTER VI—I RUN AFOUL OF COUSIN LEMUEL
CHAPTER VII—THE FORCE AND THE OBJECT
CHAPTER VIII—ARMENIANS AND INJUNS; LIKEWISE BY-PRODUCTS
CHAPTER IX—ROSES—BY ANOTHER NAME
CHAPTER X—THE SIGN OF THE WINDMILL
CHAPTER XI—COOKS AND CROOKS
CHAPTER XII—JIM HENRY STARTS SCREENIN'
CHAPTER XIII—WHAT CAME THROUGH THE SCREEN
CHAPTER XIV—THE EPISTLE TO ICHABOD
CHAPTER XV—HOW IKE'S LOSS TURNED OUT TO BE MY GAIN
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Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Published by Good Press, 2020
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He'd got into the habit of spendin' his evenin's at Pullet's store, settin' around listenin' and smilin' and agreein' with folks. He was the only feller I ever met who could say no and agree with you at the same time. Solon Saunders tried to borrow fifty cents of him once and when the pair of 'em parted, Saunders was scratchin' his head and lookin' puzzled. "I can't understand it," says Solon. "I would have swore he'd lent it to me. 'Twas just as if I had the fifty in my hand. I—I thanked him for it and all that, but—but now he's gone I don't seem to be no richer than when I started. I can't understand it."
Pullet and I had seen him settin' abaft the stove early in the evenin', but, somehow or other, we got the notion that he'd cleared out with the other loafers. However, he hadn't, and he'd heard all we'd been sayin'.
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