The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story
by George Randolph Chester
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About this eBook
- Author
- Chester, George Randolph, 1869-1924
- Title
- The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Businessmen -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 19272
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19272
- Release Date
- September 14, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.[Frontispiece: They stopped and had a drink of the cool water] — THE EARLY BIRD
- 2.A Business Man's Love Story — BY
- 3.GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER — Author of THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNIT — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN — INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS — They stopped and had a drink of the cool water . . . Frontispiece — They waylaid him on the porch — Hepseba studied him from head to foot — Sam played again the plaintive little air — "I don't like to worry you, Sam" — "Excuse me!" stammered Mr. Stevens — THE EARLY BIRD — CHAPTER I — WHEREIN A VERY BUSY YOUNG MAN STARTS ON AN ABSOLUTE REST — CHAPTER II — WHEREIN MR. TURNER PLUNGES INTO THE BUSINESS OF RESTING — [Illustration: They waylaid him on the porch] — CHAPTER III — MR. TURNER APPLIES BUSINESS PROMPTNESS TO A MATTER OF DELICACY — CHAPTER IV — A LITTLE VACATION PASTIME IN WHICH GREEK MEETS GREEK — [Illustration: Hepseba studied him from head to foot] — CHAPTER V — MISS JOSEPHINE'S FATHER AGREES THAT SAM TURNER IS ALL BUSINESS — CHAPTER VI — IN WHICH THE SUMMER LOAFER ORDERS SOME MARASCHINO CHOCOLATES — CHAPTER VII — WHICH EXHIBITS THE IMPORTANCE OF REMEMBERING A DANCE NUMBER — CHAPTER VIII — NOT SAM'S FAULT THIS TIME — CHAPTER IX — WHEREIN SAM TURNER PROVES HIMSELF TO BE A VIOLENT FLIRT — CHAPTER X — THE VALUE OF A PIANOLA TRAINING — [Illustration: Sam played again the plaintive little air] — CHAPTER XI — THE WESTLAKES DECIDE TO INVEST — CHAPTER XII — ANOTHER MISSED APPOINTMENT — CHAPTER XIII — A PLEASURE RIDE WITH MISS STEVENS — CHAPTER XIV — A DUAL QUESTION OF MATRIMONIAL ELIGIBILITY AND STOCK SUBSCRIPTION — CHAPTER XV — THE HERO OF THE HOUR — CHAPTER XVI — AN INTERRUPTED BUT PROPERLY FINISHED PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE — [Illustration: "I don't like to worry you, Sam"] — [Illustration: "Excuse me!" stammered Mr. Stevens.] — CHAPTER XVII — SHE CALLS HIM SAM! — CHAPTER XVIII — SAM TURNER ACQUIRES A BUSINESS PARTNER — THE END
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