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Ellis Parker Butler
Books in Order: 29 titles
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The Thin Santa Claus the Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking
The Dragon off the Bonins -- A conversation between Tom Rogers and Archie Gordon -- Gerald Desmond on the sick-list -- Threatenings of a typhoon -- It strikes the ship -- She runs before it -- The ship hove to -- The bowsprit carried away -- A marine...
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The Water Goats and Other Troubles
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
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The Revolt
" ...] SUSAN. Go ahead. I'll be the goat. What's the answer? GRANDMA. He is happy because we are kind to him. Because we coddle and pet him. I think, before I finally engage you, Miss Jones, I would like to see an example of your method of coddling a...
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Philo Gubb, Correspondence School Detective
This classic humourous collection of detective mystery stories is beautifully illustrated with close to 20 wonderful images to add to the readers enjoyment. Not only is Mr. Philo Gubb a professional wallpaper hanger, he's a...
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The Adventures of a Suburbanite
ISOBEL was born in a flat, and that was no fault of her own; but she was born in a flat, and reared in a flat, and married from a flat, and, for two years after we were married, we lived in a flat; but I am not a born flat-dweller myself, and as soon...
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The Confessions of a Daddy
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Dominie Dean
Thusia Fragg from the deck of the Mary Ksteamboat at the moment when a fledgling minister he ended his long voyage down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and was ready to step on Riverbank soil for the first time. From mid-river, as the steamer approac...
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Goat-Feathers
No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all of us, and I am no different. I'm starting out now to tell the bitter, agonizing truth about myself, but before I am through I shall probably be...
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The Great American Pie Company
If you take a pie and cut it in two, the track of your knife will represent the course of Mud River through the town of Gloning, and that part of the pie to the left of your knife will be the East Side, while the part to the right will be the West Si...
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How It Feels to Be Fifty
To tell you the honest truth, I am obliged to say that, if I had not been asked to write these few lines on "How it Feels to be Fifty," being fifty would n't have meant anything in my young life. Of course this will be a terrible disappointment to th...
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The Incubator Baby
On the sunniest slope of the garden of Paradise the trees stand in long, pleasant rows. The air is always balmy, and the trees are forever in bloom with pink and white blossoms. From a distance the trees look like apple trees, but, close at hand, you...
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Mike Flannery on Duty and Off
They were doing good work out back of the Westcote express office. The Westcote Land and Improvement Company was ripping the whole top off Seiler's Hill and dumping it into the swampy meadow, and Mike Flannery liked to sit at the back door of the exp...
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Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective
Walking close along the wall, to avoid the creaking floor boards, Philo Gubb, paper-hanger and student of the Rising Sun Detective Agency's Correspondence School of Detecting, tiptoed to the door of the bedroom he shared with the mysterious Mr. Critz...
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Pigs Is Pigs
Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over the counter of the express office and shook his fist. Mr. Morehouse, angry and red, stood on the other side of the counter, trembling with rage. The argument had been lo...
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The Thin Santa Claus
Mrs. Gratz opened her eyes and looked out at the drizzle that made the Christmas morning gray. Her bed stood against the window, and it was easy for her to look out; all she had to do was to roll over and pull the shade aside. Having looked at the we...
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The Water Goats, and Other Troubles
"And then," said the landscape gardener, combing his silky, pointed beard gently with his long, artistic fingers, "in the lake you might have a couple of gondolas. Two would be sufficient for a lake of this size; amply sufficient. Yes," he said firml...
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The Cheerful Smugglers
Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 �" September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic statio...
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The Jack-Knife Man
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
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Perkins of Portland
THERE was very little about Perkins that was not peculiar. To mention his peculiarities would be a long task; he was peculiar from the ground up. His shoes had rubber soles, his hat had peculiar mansard ventilators on each side, his garments were vil...
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Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective
Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 - September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs," in which a bureaucratic stationm...
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Selected Works of Ellis Parker Butler
This is a selection of the works of Ellis Parker Butler. It includes the following titles: The Thin Santa Claus The Great American Pie Company Pigs is Pigs, The Revolt Red Head and Whistle Breeches Goat-Feathers Mike Flannery On Duty and Off The Wate...
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Swatty a Story of Real Boys
Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 - September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs," in which a bureaucratic stationm...
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The Hard-boiled Egg
Walking close along the wall, to avoid the creaking floor boards, Philo Gubb, paper-hanger and student of the Rising Sun Detective Agency's Correspondence School of Detecting, tiptoed to the door of the bedroom he shared with the mysterious Mr Cr...
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Philo Gubb's Greatest Case
Philo Gubb, wrapped in his bathrobe, went to the door of the room that was the headquarters of his business of paper-hanging and decorating as well as the office of his detective business, and opened the door a crack. It was still early in the mo...
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