The Vagaries of Tod and Peter

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L. Allen Harker. The Vagaries of Tod and Peter

The Vagaries of Tod and Peter

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

PART I. BOYS

THE VAGARIES OF TOD AND PETER

I. THE MURDER

II. THE SENDING

III. THE BOY THAT DIDN’T COME

“TONY”

A SQUARE PEG

A TWENTIETH-CENTURY MISOGYNIST

I

II

III

PART II. CHILDREN OF LAST CENTURY

A SMALL EVENT

IN DURANCE VILE

THE SURRENDER OF LADY GRIZELL

A CLEAN PACK

AN IRON SEAT

LÉON

THE OLD RELIGION

COMRADES

LITTLE SHOES

“PASSING THE LOVE OF WOMEN”

A THROW BACK

THE INTERVENTION OF THE DUKE

I. ENTER WIGGINS

II. A NEW ATMOSPHERE

III “ALL SECRET SHADOWS AND MYSTIC SIGHTS”

IV. THE EDUCATION OF THE MINISTER

V. MARY

VI. MARY’S HUSBAND

VII “BESIDE THE IDLE SUMMER SEA”

VIII. THE COLONEL INTERFERES

IX. VALE

PART III. CHILDREN OF THIS

JEAN, A PORTRAIT

THE DOLL’S-HOUSE FLAGS (1917)

CONCERNING CHRIS AND EASTER (1916)

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L. Allen Harker

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“It’s rather decent of him to keep them,” thought Peter to himself, who was tender-hearted where animals were concerned. “Perhaps, if he doesn’t clap on any more lines for a bit, I’ll let him off with two.”

But, alas for good intentions. When Peter got back to the house, he found Tod bursting with indignation. For at “Practical Chemistry,” that very morning, Tod, who was supposed to be engaged in the manufacture of hydrogen, used so many conflicting ingredients as to cause an explosion and dense smoke, and a smell so appalling that it drove the whole class into the corridor, and caused several testy masters to send indignant messages demanding where the infernal smell came from.

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