The Making of Bobby Burnit

About this eBook

Author

Chester, George Randolph, 1869-1924

Title

The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

Credits

Produced by Mark C. Orton, Linda McKeown, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Businessmen -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

26485

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26485

Release Date

August 30, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DEDICATION — THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNIT
2. 2.CHAPTER I BOBBY MAKES SOME IMPORTANT PREPARATIONS FOR A COMMERCIAL LIFE
3. 3.CHAPTER II PINK CARNATIONS APPEAR IN THE OFFICE OF THE JOHN BURNIT STORE
4. 4.CHAPTER III OLD JOHN BURNIT’S ANCIENT ENEMY POINTS OUT THE WAY TO GRANDEUR
5. 5.CHAPTER IV AGNES EMPHATICALLY DECIDES THAT SHE DOES NOT LIKE A CERTAIN PERSON
6. 6.CHAPTER V WHEREIN BOBBY ATTENDS A STOCK-HOLDERS’ MEETING AND CUTS A WISDOM-TOOTH
7. 7.CHAPTER VI CONSISTING ENTIRELY OF A RAPID SUCCESSION OF MOST PAINFUL SHOCKS
8. 8.CHAPTER VII PINK-CHEEKED APPLEROD RUSHES TO THE RESCUE WITH A GOLDEN SCHEME
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII BOBBY SUCCEEDS IN SNAPPING A BARGAIN FROM UNDER SILAS TRIMMER’S NOSE
10. 10.CHAPTER IX AGNES DELIVERS BOBBY A NOTE FROM OLD JOHN BURNIT—IN A GRAY ENVELOPE
11. 11.CHAPTER X AGNES AND BOBBY DISCERN DIAMOND-STUDDED SPURS FOR THE LATTER
12. 12.CHAPTER XI BOBBY DISCOVERS AN ENEMY GREATER THAN SILAS TRIMMER
13. 13.CHAPTER XII AGNES DECIDES THAT SHE WILL WAIT
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII IN WHICH A CHARMING GENTLEMAN OFFERS AN INVESTMENT WITHOUT A FLAW
15. 15.CHAPTER XIV BOBBY ENTERS A BUSINESS ALLIANCE, A SOCIAL ENTANGLEMENT AND A QUARREL WITH AGNES
16. 16.CHAPTER XV A STRANGE CONNECTION DEVELOPS BETWEEN ELECTRICITY AND POLITICS
17. 17.CHAPTER XVI AGNES APPEARS PUBLICLY WITH MRS. SHARPE AND BIFF BATES HAS A ONE-ROUND SCRAP
18. 18.CHAPTER XVII BOBBY’S MONEY IS ELECTROCUTED AND JOHN BURNIT’S SON WAKES UP
19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII SOME EMINENT ARTISTS AMUSE MEESTER BURNIT WHILE HE WAITS
20. 20.CHAPTER XIX WITH THE RELUCTANT CONSENT OF AGNES, BOBBY BECOMES A PATRON OF MUSIC
21. 21.CHAPTER XX STILL WITH THE RELUCTANT CONSENT OF AGNES, BOBBY INVESTS IN THE FINE ARTS
22. 22.CHAPTER XXI WHEREIN THE FINE ARTS PRESENT BOBBY WITH A MOST EMBARRASSING DILEMMA
23. 23.CHAPTER XXII AGNES FINDS BOBBY A SLING AND BOBBY PUTS A STONE IN IT
24. 24.CHAPTER XXIII BOBBY BEGINS TO GIVE TESTIMONY THAT HE IS OLD JOHN BURNIT’S SON
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIV EDITOR BURNIT DISCOVERS THAT HE IS FIGHTING AN ENTIRE CITY INSTEAD OF ONE MAN
26. 26.CHAPTER XXV AN EXCITING GAME OF TIT FOR TAT WITH HIRED THUGS
27. 27.CHAPTER XXVI MR. STONE LEAVES BOBBY A PARTING COMMISSION AND A LEFT-HANDED BLESSING
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVII AUNT CONSTANCE ELLISTON LOSES ALL HER PATIENCE WITH A CERTAIN PROSAIC COURTSHIP
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVIII BIFF RENEWS A PLEASANT ACQUAINTANCE AND BOBBY INAUGURATES A TRAGEDY
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIX JIMMY PLATT ENJOYS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF HIS LIFE
31. 31.CHAPTER XXX IN WHICH, BEING THE LAST CHAPTER, EVERYTHING TURNS OUT RIGHT, AND EVERYBODY GETS MARRIED — Popular Copyright Books

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