The Idiot
by John Kendrick Bangs
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Boardinghouses -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 18881
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18881
- Release Date
- July 20, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE IDIOT
- 2.BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS — AUTHOR OF "COFFEE AND REPARTEE" "THE WATER GHOST, AND OTHERS" "THREE WEEKS IN POLITICS" ETC. — ILLUSTRATED — NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1895 — Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers — All rights reserved. — TO WILLIAM K. OTIS
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.THE IDIOT
- 6.I — "THE NUISANCE OF HAVING TO PAY" — "SHE COULD NOT POSSIBLY GET ABOARD AGAIN"
- 7.II — "CERTAINLY. I ASKED FOR ANOTHER CUP" — "DEMANDS TICKETS FOR TWO"
- 8.III — "THEY ARE GIVEN TO REHEARSING AT ALL HOURS" — "'HA! HA! I HAVE HIM NOW!'"
- 9.IV — "HAS YOUR FRIEND COMPLETED HIS ARTICLE ON OLD JOKES?" — THEY DEPARTED
- 10.V — "YOU FISH ALL DAY, AND HAVE NO LUCK" — HE COULD BE HEARD THROWING THINGS ABOUT
- 11.VI — "HE WAS NOT MURDERED" — "SUPERINTENDENT SMITHERS HAS NOT ABSCONDED"
- 12.VII — THE INSPIRED BOARDER PAID HIS BILL — "I KNOW YOU CAN'T, BECAUSE IT ISN'T THERE"
- 13.VIII — "YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF HEARD IN SAN FRANCISCO" — THE PROPHETOGRAPH
- 14.IX — "I GRASPED IT IN MY TWO HANDS" — "PIANO-PLAYING ISN'T ALWAYS MUSIC"
- 15.X — "THE MOON ITSELF WILL BE USED" — "DECLINES TO BE RIDDEN"
- 16.XI — "THE BIBLIOMANIAC WOULD BE RAISING BULBS" — "DIDN'T KNOW ENOUGH TO CHOOSE HIS OWN FACE"
- 17.XII — "JANITORS HAVE TO BE SEEN TO" — "MY ELOQUENCE FLOATED UP THE AIR-SHAFT"
- 18.BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
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