Skinner's Dress Suit
by Henry Irving Dodge
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About this eBook
- Author
- Dodge, Henry Irving, 1861-1934
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Suits (Clothing) -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 26080
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26080
- Release Date
- July 17, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Cover art — "I won't take your order unless you throw in that trout dinner" — SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT — BY
- 2.HENRY IRVING DODGE — With Illustrations — TORONTO THOMAS ALLEN PUBLISHER 1916 — TO MY WIFE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — "I WON'T TAKE YOUR ORDER UNLESS YOU THROW IN THAT TROUT DINNER" . . . . . . Frontispiece — "IT'S COME AT LAST! SKINNER'S ASKED FOR A RAISE" — "THE GENERAL EFFECT DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT!" — "THERE," SHE CRIED, "YOU CAN CREDIT YOUR DRESS-SUIT ACCOUNT WITH THAT!" — "MRS. SKINNER, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ARCHIBALD RUTHERFORD, OF HASTINGS-ON-THE-HUDSON, ACCOMPANIES HER HUSBAND" — "WHY CAN'T I GO WITH THOSE PEOPLE," SHE SNIFFLED — From Drawings by F. Vaux Wilson — SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT — CHAPTER I — SKINNER ASKS FOR A RAISE — "It's come at last! Skinner's asked for a raise" — CHAPTER II — HOW SKINNER GOT HIS RAISE — CHAPTER III — SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT — "The general effect does n't seem right!" — CHAPTER IV — SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT BEGINS TO GET IN ITS FINE WORK — CHAPTER V — THE OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE DRESS SUIT — "There," she cried, "you can credit your dress-suit account with that!" — CHAPTER VI — DODGING A MAGNATE AND WHAT CAME OF IT — CHAPTER VII — SKINNER AND THE "GOLD BUGS" — CHAPTER VIII — CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST — CHAPTER IX — SKINNER FISHES WITH A DIPLOMATIC HOOK — "Mrs. Skinner, daughter of the late Archibald Rutherford, of Hastings-on-the-Hudson, accompanies her husband" — CHAPTER X — SKINNER LANDS A CURMUDGEON — "Why can't _I_ go with those people?" she sniffled — CHAPTER XI — THE OSTRICH FEATHER
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