The Sunny Side of the Street

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Marshall P. Wilder. The Sunny Side of the Street

The Sunny Side of the Street

Table of Contents

PREFACE

The People, Stories About Whom Appear in “The Sunny Side of the Street”

I. SUNSHINE AND FUN

II. SUNNY MEN OF SERIOUS PRESENCE

III. AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND NEAR IT

IV. STORY-TELLING AS AN ART

V. ACTORS’ JOKES

VI. A SUNNY OLD CITY

VII. MY FIRST TRIP TO LONDON

VIII. EXPERIENCES IN LONDON

IX “LUCK” IN STORY-TELLING

X. JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS

XI. THE UNEXPECTED

XII. SUNSHINE IN SHADY PLACES

XIII “BUFFALO BILL”

XIV. THE ART OF ENTERTAINING

XV. IN THE SUNSHINE WITH GREAT PREACHERS

XVI. THE PRINCE OF WALES (Now King Edward VII)

XVII. SIR HENRY IRVING

XVIII. LONDON THEATRES AND THEATRE-GOERS

XIX. TACT

XX. ADELINA PATTI

XXI. SOME NOTABLE PEOPLE

XXII. HUMAN NATURE

XXIII. SUNNY STAGE PEOPLE

XXIV. SUNSHINE IS IN DEMAND

XXV “BILL” NYE

XXVI. SOME SUNNY SOLDIERS

XXVII. SOME FIRST EXPERIENCES

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Marshall P. Wilder

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Mr. Goff granted the request and they retired to a small room where the prisoner after telling his real name, related a touching story of devotion to a young sister whom he brought up and educated with the proceeds of his earlier crimes. While serving his prison term he had written her letters which his pals posted for him in different parts of the world to make her believe he was traveling so constantly that any letters from her could not reach him. This sister was now married and had two children and it would break her heart to find out that her brother was a convict or had ever been one. So he wished to be sentenced under another name. Mr. Goff said:

“I will suspend sentence.”

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