People You Know
by George Ade
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ade, George, 1866-1944
- Credits
- Produced by Audrey Longhurst, William Flis, and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- American wit and humor
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 13543
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13543
- Release Date
- September 27, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PEOPLE YOU KNOW — PEOPLE YOU KNOW — By GEORGE ADE — Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon and Others — MCMIV — Preface — CONTENTS
- 2.The Periodical Souse, the Never-Again Feeling and the Ride On the Sprinkling Cart
- 3.The Kind of Music That Is Too Good for Household Use
- 4.The One or Two Points of Difference Between Learning and Learning How
- 5.The Night-Watch and the Would-Be Something Awful
- 6.The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang In the Associate Counsel
- 7.What Father Bumped Into at the Culture Factory
- 8.The Search for the Right House and How Mrs. Jump Had Her Annual Attack
- 9.The Batch of Letters, or One Day With a Busy Man
- 10.The Sickly Dream and How It Was Doctored Up
- 11.The Two Old Pals and the Call for Help
- 12.The Regular Kind of a Place and the Usual Way It Turned Out
- 13.The Man Who Had a True Friend to Steer Him Along
- 14.The Young Napoleon Who Went Back to the Store on Monday Morning
- 15.The High Art That Was a Little Too High for the Vulgarian Who Paid the Bills
- 16.The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place
- 17.The Summer Vacation That Was Too Good to Last
- 18.How an Humble Beginner Moved from One Pinnacle to Another and Played the Entire Circuit
- 19.The Maneuvers of Joel and the Disappointed Orphan Asylum
- 20.Two Young People, Two Photographers and the Correspondence School of Wooing
- 21.The Married Couple That Went to Housekeeping and Began to Find Out Things
- 22.The Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand
- 23.The Effort to Convert the Work Horse Into a High-Stepper
- 24.Self-Made Hezekiah and His Message of Hope to This Years Crop of Graduates
- 25.The Girl Who Took Notes and Got Wise and Then Fell Down
- 26.What They Had Laid Out for Their Vacation
- 27.The Experimental Couple and the Three Off-Shoots
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