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Sewell Ford
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Publisher: New York: E. J. Clode Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Sewell Ford (1868-1946) was an American prolific author who wrote Horses Nine: Stories of Harness and Saddle (1903), Shorty McCabe (1906), Cherub Divine (1907), Side-Stepping with Shorty (1908), Torchy (1911)…
These delightful stories follow the adventures of Torchy, a clever and resourceful assistant to a wealthy businessman, and his love interest Vee, a smart and independent young woman. With their…
The novel begins: Those who doubt that fate now and then indulges in irony should have observed the manner in which Hewington Acres came into the possession of Cherub Divine…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: Grosset
Say, I thought I’d taken a sportin’ chance now and then before; but I was only kiddin’ myself. Believe me, this gettin’ married act is the big plunge. Uh-huh! Specially…
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Sure, I was carryin’ the banner. But say, I ain’t one of them kids that gets callouses on the hands doin’ it. When I’m handed the fresh air on payday…
I must say I didn’t get much excited at first over this Marion Gray tragedy. You see, I’d just blown in from Cleveland, where I’d been shunted by the Ordnance…
At the age of six Skipper went on the force. Clean of limb and sound of wind he was, with not a blemish from the tip of his black tail…
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
The book begins: Notice any gold dust on my back? No? Well it’s a wonder there ain’t, for I’ve been up against the money bags so close I expect you…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
[…] II ROUNDING UP MAGGIE Say, who was tellin’ you? Ah, g'wan! Them sea shore press agents is full of fried eels. Disguises; nothin’![…].
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an…
Excerpt: …for rich people. Calls ‘em blood-suckers and things like that. Oh, he’s sump'n fierce when he talks about the rich. Is he? says I. I wonder why? All the…
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…
Shorty McCabe, defender of widows and orphans, is hired to right the wrongs performed by the late Pyramid Gordon, using Gordon’s three million dollar fortune.
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Excuse me, mister man, but ain’t you-Hello, yourself! Blamed if I didn’t think there was somethin’ kind of natural about the looks, as you come pikin’ by. How’re they runnin’…
Do things just happen, like peculiar changes in the weather, or is there a general scheme on file somewhere? Is it a free-for-all we’re mixed up in-with our Harry Thaws…
I forget just what it was Vee was rummagin’ for in the drawer of her writin’ desk. Might have been last month’s milk bill, or a stray hair net, or…
It was a case of declarin’ time out on the house. Uh-huh-a whole afternoon. What’s the use bein’ a private sec. in good standin’ unless you can put one over…
Well, it’s come! Uh-huh! And sudden, too, like I knew it would, if it came at all. No climbin’ the ladder for me, not while they run express elevators. And…
In this delightful collection of short stories, Sewell Ford introduces readers to the lovable rogue Shorty McCabe, a wisecracking handyman with an impish sense of humor and a heart of…
Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspruenglich vor Jahrzehnten veroeffentlicht als Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe . Es wurde jetzt von Writat fuer seine deutschsprachigen Leser ins Deutsche uebersetzt…
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a des decennies sous le titre "" Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe . Il a maintenant ete traduit…
