In Our Town

About this eBook

Author

White, William Allen, 1868-1944

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

City and town life -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

26207

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26207

Release Date

August 7, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.In Our Town
2. 2.BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE — The Court of Boyville, The Real Issue, Stratagems and Spoils — Illustrations by F. R. Gruger and W. Glackens — NEW YORK McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. MCMVI — Copyright 1906 by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. — Published April, 1906 — Copyright 1904 by The Century Co. Copyright 1905-1906 by The Curtis Publishing Co. — He wore his collars so high that he had to order them from a drummer
3. 3.Contents
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.IN OUR TOWN
6. 6.I — Scribes and Pharisees — Suppressing nothing "on account of the respectability of the parties concerned"
7. 7.II — The Young Prince
8. 8.III — The Society Editor — As an office joke the boys used to leave a step-ladder by her desk so that she could climb up and see how her top-knot really looked
9. 9.IV — "As a Breath into the Wind"
10. 10.V — The Coming of the Leisure Class — And brought with him a large leisure and a taste for society
11. 11.VI — The Bolton Girl's "Position" — Sometimes he thought it was a report of a fire and at other times it seemed like a dress-goods catalogue
12. 12.VII — "By the Rod of His Wrath" — As the dinner hour grew near she raged—so the servants said—whenever the telephone rang
13. 13.VIII — "A Bundle of Myrrh" — "Jim Purdy, taken the day he left for the army"
14. 14.IX — Our Loathed but Esteemed Contemporary — He advertised the fact that he was a good hater by showing callers at his office his barrel
15. 15.X — A Question of Climate — He likes to sit in the old sway-back swivel-chair and tell us his theory of the increase in the rainfall
16. 16.XI — The Casting Out of Jimmy Myers — And camped in the office for two days, looking for Jimmy — "UNDER THE STARS & BARS" — Democracy Opens Its State Campaign Under the Rebel Emblem To-day A Fitting Token Treasonable Utterances Have a Proper Setting — Reverend Milligan came in with a church notice
17. 17.XII — "'A Babbled of Green Fields" — A desert Scorpion, outcast by society and proud of it
18. 18.XIII — A Pilgrim in the Wilderness
19. 19.XIV — The Passing of Priscilla Winthrop
20. 20.XV — "And Yet a Fool" — "He made a lot of money and blew it in"
21. 21.XVI — A Kansas "Childe Roland" — Went about town with his cigar pointing toward his hat-brim
22. 22.XVII — The Tremolo Stop
23. 23.XVIII — Sown in Our Weakness — The traveling men on the veranda craned their necks to watch her out of sight
24. 24.XIX — "Thirty" — Counting the liars and scoundrels and double-dealers and villains who pass — THE END

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