Off Sandy Hook, and other stories
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Richard Dehan. Off Sandy Hook, and other stories
Off Sandy Hook, and other stories
Table of Contents
OFF SANDY HOOK
GEMINI. AN EMBARRASSMENT OF CHOICE
A DISH OF MACARONI
“FREDDY & CIE”
UNDER THE ELECTRICS. A SHOW-LADY IS ELOQUENT
“VALCOURT’S GRIN”
THE EVOLUTION OF THE FAIREST
THE REVOLT OF RUSTLETON
A DYSPEPTIC’S TRAGEDY
RENOVATION
THE BREAKING PLACE
A LANCASHIRE DAISY
A PITCHED BATTLE
THE TUG OF WAR
GAS!
AIR
SIDE!
A SPIRIT ELOPEMENT
THE WIDOW’S MITE
SUSANNA AND HER ELDERS
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II
LADY CLANBEVAN’S BABY
THE DUCHESS’S DILEMMA
THE CHILD
A HINDERED HONEYMOON
“CLOTHES—AND THE MAN—!”
THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA
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Richard Dehan
Published by Good Press, 2022
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“Was he ca’am in temper?” asked the Pressman.
“Mild as milk.... As kind a beast as ever breathed; and elephants do a lot of breathing,” said the Second Officer. “The ladies and gentlemen in the upper-deck cabins used to complain about his snoring in the night; but as Nurse Amy said, there are people who’d complain about anything. And some of ’em didn’t like the smell of elephant—which, I’ll allow, when you happened to get to wind’ard of Bingo, was—phew!”
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