The Best American Humorous Short Stories

bbed the barn, with enough more money to make him love all the world

l situation to them. They were chatting gaily when the Ellsworths came down the

a bit of exercise will you guarantee us the

money, marbles, ner chalk. A bargain's a bargain, an' I allus stick to one I make," and he v

d her husband as they passed in hearing of the Van Kamps. "Do you know those oldtime rag rugs are the mo

ome out and join his parents. Ralph, it seemed, however, had decided not to take a walk. He had already fatigued himself, he had explained,

d first and came out on the porch to find a handkerchief. It was not there, bu

. "By the way, you don't happen to know the Whitl

"But you will have to excuse me. We shall be

is feet with a lu

floor front suit

at all," she

ghed l

ut even in that

hall. "Please come and take those f

rked Evelyn with a laugh quite as light and gl

ly, and was met at t

. Ellsworth, I believe,

a

lsworth.

her. It is unsealed. You are

elf away, and Ralph ope

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ee second floor front rooms, as well as all the balance not in actual use by Mr. and Mrs. Tutt and the driver of the stage. You are quite welcome, however, to make use

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eputation for resourcefulness, but it took quite a bit of scalp irritation before he aggravated the right idea into being. As soon as the idea came, he went

ace, whether in the cellar, the house or any of the surrounding structures, in the gro

uddenly her lips parted with a smile that revealed a double row of

suggested. "I'd be delighted to help

ces," she answered, "but really it will not be necessary. We have hired Mr. Tutt and the driv

you don't happen to know Maud and Dorothy Partridge, of Baltimore,

Baltimore," she murmured, an

h and smoked. There was no