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The Four-Masted Cat-Boat

The Four-Masted Cat-Boat

by Charles Battell Loomis

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Author
Loomis, Charles Battell, 1861-1911
Title
The Four-Masted Cat-Boat, and Other Truthful Tales
Credits
Produced by D A Alexander, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Manners and customs -- Fiction
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 63863
Release Date
November 23, 2020
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Four-Masted Cat-Boat
  2. 2.Preface
  3. 3.Contents — A FEW IDIOTISMS
  4. 4.I THE FOUR-MASTED CAT-BOAT
  5. 5.II THE POOR WAS MAD
  6. 6.III A PECULIAR INDUSTRY
  7. 7.IV GRIGGS’S MIND
  8. 8.V THE SIGNALS OF GRIGGS
  9. 9.VI À LA SHERLOCK HOLMES
  10. 10.VII MY SPANISH PARROT
  11. 11.VIII “TO MEET MR. CAVENDISH”
  12. 12.IX INSTINCT SUPPLIED TO HENS
  13. 13.X A SPRING IDYL
  14. 14.XI AN INVERTED SPRING IDYL
  15. 15.XII AT THE CHESTNUTS’ DINNER
  16. 16.XIII THE ROUGH WORDS SOCIETY
  17. 17.XIV A NEW USE FOR HORSES
  18. 18.XV A CALCULATING BORE
  19. 19.XVI AN URBAN GAME
  20. 20.XVII “DE GUSTIBUS”
  21. 21.XVIII “BUFFUM’S BUSTLESS BUFFERS” — AT THE LITERARY COUNTER
  22. 22.XIX “THE FATHER OF SANTA CLAUS”
  23. 23.XX THE DIALECT STORE
  24. 24.XXI “FROM THE FRENCH”
  25. 25.XXII ON THE VALUE OF DOGMATIC UTTERANCE
  26. 26.XXIII THE SAD CASE OF DEACON PERKINS
  27. 27.XXIV THE MISSING-WORD BORE
  28. 28.XXV THE CONFESSIONS OF A CRITIC
  29. 29.XXVI HOW ’RASMUS PAID THE MORTGAGE
  30. 30.XXVII ’MIDST ARMED FOES
  31. 31.XXVIII AT THE SIGN OF THE CYGNET
  32. 32.XXIX A SCOTCH SKETCH — UNRELATED STORIES—RELATED
  33. 33.XXX EPHRATA SYMONDS’S DOUBLE LIFE
  34. 34.XXXI A STRANGER TO LUCK
  35. 35.XXXII CUPID ON RUNNERS
  36. 36.XXXIII MY TRUTHFUL BURGLAR
  37. 37.XXXIV THE MAN WITHOUT A WATCH
  38. 38.XXXV THE WRECK OF THE “CATAPULT” — ESSAYS AT ESSAYS
  39. 39.XXXVI THE BULL, THE GIRL, AND THE RED SHAWL
  40. 40.XXXVII CONCERNING DISH-WASHING
  41. 41.XXXVIII A PERENNIAL FEVER
  42. 42.XXXIX “AMICUS REDIVIVUS”
  43. 43.XL THE PROPER CARE OF FLIES

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