Squire Phin

About this eBook

Author

Day, Holman, 1865-1935

Credits

Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by the Internet Archive

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Maine -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 55340

Release Date

August 11, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SQUIRE PHIN
2. 2.By Holman Day — New York: Harper & Brothers — 1913
3. 3.SQUIRE PHIN
4. 4.CHAPTER I—“HARD-TIMES” WHARFF COCKS HIS NOSE TO SNIFF TROUBLE — PHINEAS LOOK — Attorney and Notary
5. 5.CHAPTER II—“HIME” LOOK’S HOMECOMING WITH AN ELEPHANT — AND TROUBLE AND A FEW OTHER THINGS
6. 6.CHAPTER III—FROM THE MOUTH OF MARRINER AMAZEEN
7. 7.CHAPTER IV—SQUIRE PHIN FINDS HYMEN’S TORCH BURNING HIS FINGERS
8. 8.CHAPTER V—HIRAM LOOK MEETS KLEBER WILLARD BRIEFLY AND BRISKLY — AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
9. 9.CHAPTER VI—SQUIRE PHIN HAS A WORD OF BUSINESS WITH KING BRADISH
10. 10.CHAPTER VII—THE BUSINESS OF HUMAN HEARTS — THAT CALLED SQUIRE PHIN TO THE COVE ROAD
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII—SQUIRE PHIN ACTS AS PEACEMAKER
12. 12.CHAPTER IX—SUMNER BADGER MAKES A WILL AND, UNWITTINGLY, A DISCLOSURE
13. 13.CHAPTER X—HIRAM LOOK PULLS IN SIMON PEAK FROM THE FLOTSAM OF LIFE — FOR GOOD AND SUFFICIENT REASONS
14. 14.CHAPTER XI—THE COMBINATION THAT PROVED TOO MUCH — FOR SQUIRE PHIN’S “LOOK TEMPER”
15. 15.CHAPTER XII—THE LIVELY FIRST APPEARANCE OF “THE LOOK BROTHERS — CONSOLIDATED MENAGERIE AND CIRCUS”
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII—THE “COME-UPPANCE” OF CAPTAIN NYMPHUS BODFISH — OF THE PACKET “EFFORT”
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV—THE PACT OF “ORPHAN HILL” — AND THE DIVAGATIONS OF DISCONSOLATE IMOGENE
18. 18.CHAPTER XV—SOME OF THE POSSIBILITIES IN A “CORNET BRASS BAND” — AS FIGURED BY ITS PROMOTER, HIRAM LOOK
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI—THE DISAPPOINTING “TEST CASE” OF SUMNER BADGER, — A “SAMPLE CITIZEN” OF PALERMO
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII—WHAT DEVELOPED AT THE FORUM IN ASA BRICKETT’S STORE, — TO AN OBBLIGATO BY LOOK’S CORNET BRASS BAND
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII—YANKEE DISPOSITION IS NOT EXACTLY UNDERSTOOD, — EVEN BY ITS POSSESSORS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX—SQUIRE PHIN SEES AND REPLEVINS WHAT BELONGS TO HIM — IN MANNER DECIDEDLY SUMMARY
23. 23.CHAPTER XX—PALERMO’S “MARCH MEETIN’” — HOW IT WAS PLANNED TO BE RUN, AND HOW IT WAS RUN
24. 24.CHAPTER XXI—WHY HIRAM LOOK WENT OUT OF THE CIRCUS BUSINESS — FOR GOOD AND ALL — ****
25. 25.CHAPTER XXII—HOW SYLVENA WILLARD “TRIED IT ON THE DOG,” — WITH HAPPY RESULTS
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII—HIRAM LOOK’S TWO LIVELY BUSINESS ENGAGEMENTS — WITH CAPTAIN NYMPHUS BODFISH OF THE “EFFORT”
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV—THE CREDIT SHEET, AFTER THE LOOK — AND THE WILLARD FAMILIES STRIKE THEIR BALANCES
28. 28.CHAPTER XXV—AQUARIUS WHARFF SEES SOMETHING BESIDES HARD TIMES — IN THE SUNSET — THE END

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